question hadoop.proxyuser.root.groups config setting. What exactly is it? in Support Questions

question hadoop.proxyuser.root.groups config setting. What exactly is it? in Support Questions https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/hadoop-proxyuser-root-groups-config-setting-What-exactly-is/m-p/286206#M212287 [The following question was moved here after originally being posted 12-23-2019 <A href="https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Unauthorized-connection-for-super-user-root-from-IP-192-168/m-p/193467/highlight/true#M155531" target="_blank" rel="noopener">to this thread which was marked 'Solved'</A> 06-01-2017 12:49 AM —Moderator]   <a href="https://community.cloudera.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/50614">@jsensharma</a> Could you explain a little more about what exactly this  <PRE>hadoop.proxyuser.root.groups</PRE> config is? Any docs describing it more? Tue, 24 Dec 2019 02:29:32 GMT rvillanueva 2019-12-24T02:29:32Z