https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Why-are-there-21-separate-service-accounts/m-p/98166#M11660 <P>The admins want to know why every service has its own account ID, and is there any harm is using the same account for all? The cluster will be tightly secured. What is the best practice?</P> Wed, 09 Dec 2015 06:29:07 GMT pcoates 2015-12-09T06:29:07Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Why-are-there-21-separate-service-accounts/m-p/98166#M11660 <P>The admins want to know why every service has its own account ID, and is there any harm is using the same account for all? The cluster will be tightly secured. What is the best practice?</P> Wed, 09 Dec 2015 06:29:07 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Why-are-there-21-separate-service-accounts/m-p/98166#M11660 pcoates 2015-12-09T06:29:07Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Why-are-there-21-separate-service-accounts/m-p/98167#M11661 <P>Closing this as a redirect to <A href="https://community.hortonworks.com/questions/3034/running-all-services-as-same-user.html?redirectedFrom=5474">https://community.hortonworks.com/questions/3034/running-all-services-as-same-user.html?redirectedFrom=5474</A></P> Tue, 19 Jan 2016 23:43:40 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Why-are-there-21-separate-service-accounts/m-p/98167#M11661 mherring 2016-01-19T23:43:40Z