user is not allowed to impersonate admin in hbase thrift server

Mjudhandoyo — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:48:15 GMT

i am new in hbase developer, and i have a problem with my hbase.

for the first time, i can use hbase thrift server and can use hbase browser in hue very soft

but when my computer restart, and i start manually again the hbase thrift by command "hbase thrift start" in terminal. it returns "user root/myusername is not allowed to impersonate admin".

i don't know why. i have changed all the configuration.

add "hadoop.proxyuser.hbase.hosts" and "hadoop.proxyuser.hbase.groups" with value "*"

and still don't change the error in the hue web UI.

anybody can help me ?

please i need somebody help, i can't continue my thesis..

thank you very much.

Re: user is not allowed to impersonate admin in hbase thrift server

ben.hemphill — Wed, 30 Nov 2016 07:57:17 GMT

you might try adding the following to core-site.xml seems like the error is talking about the root group.

hadoop.proxyuser.root.groups=*
hadoop.proxyuser.root.hosts=*

If you are running cloudera manager, you need to add those in cloudera manager itself, the config is not in the traditional space, but instead in a seperate folder managed by cloudera for each individual service. Confusingly, the config is in the traditional space is for the "gateway".

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