Killing an application
The Application ACL mapreduce.job.acl-modify-job determines whether or
not a user can modify a job, but in the context of YARN, this only allows the user to kill an
application.
The kill action is application agnostic and part of the YARN framework.
Other application types, like MapReduce or Spark, implement their own kill action independent
of the YARN framework. MapReduce provides the kill actions via the mapred command.
For YARN, the following three groups of users are allowed to kill a running
application:
- The application owner
- A cluster administrator defined in
yarn.admin.acl - A queue administrator defined in
aclAdministerAppsfor the queue in which the application is running
Note that for the queue administrators, ACL inheritance applies, as described earlier.
