How to make Hue look at multiple AD groups for LDAP Search Base - base_dn

getschwifty — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 11:30:00 GMT

Hi,

We are running Hue as part of CDH 6.2 (and currently upgrading to 6.3.3). We have an AD group - hue-users - which is the base_dn in the CDH Hue config. This group controls basic access to Hue.

I would like to add another AD group. How do I do this?

For context, this is so that we can split permissions between groups. One group (hue-users) is for user access (all modules). The other is for unattended service accounts, so we only want them be able to access/schedule/run Oozie jobs.

Edit: they're all in the same AD realm, although not necessarily the same OU path.

My current config is (the numbers are for reading nested AD groups)

(memberOf:1.2.840.113556.1.4.1941:=CN=hue-users,OU=x,DC=x,DC=x,DC=x)

I've tried (with various brackets etc):

((memberOf:1.2.840.113556.1.4.1941:=CN=hue-users,OU=x,DC=x,DC=x,DC=x) || (memberOf:1.2.840.113556.1.4.1941:=CN=service-users,OU=x,DC=x,DC=x,DC=x))

(|(memberOf:1.2.840.113556.1.4.1941:=CN=hue-users,OU=x,DC=x,DC=x,DC=x)(memberOf:1.2.840.113556.1.4.1941:=CN=service-users,OU=x,DC=x,DC=x,DC=x))

None have worked. Any suggestions?

Re: How to make Hue look at multiple AD groups for LDAP Search Base - base_dn

getschwifty — Mon, 04 May 2020 00:23:21 GMT

EDIT: which is the base_dn in the CDH Hue config

It's the

LDAP User Filter

user_filter

Not the base_dn

Re: How to make Hue look at multiple AD groups for LDAP Search Base - base_dn

getschwifty — Mon, 04 May 2020 06:28:32 GMT

Solved it. This works.

(|(memberOf:1.2.840.113556.1.4.1941:=CN=hue-users,OU=x,DC=x,DC=x,DC=x)(memberOf:1.2.840.113556.1.4.1941:=CN=service-users,OU=x,DC=x,DC=x,DC=x))

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