Authentication on Secure Clusters for HttpFS

HttpFS features several authentication methods on secure clusters. HttpFS authentication, such as native security (data-fabric SASL), Kerberos (for which additional configuration is required), or plain security (using PAM), which is determined automatically.

The following httpfs-site.xml file properties are set by default:

<property>
      <name>httpfs.hadoop.authentication.type</name>
      <value>multiauth</value>     
</property>      
<property>
      <name>httpfs.authentication.type</name>
      <value>multiauth</value>
</property>