TIP: when you get a message in job log user [Dr. Who] is not authorized to view the log

[#1]

here's the message

here's a quick fix, replace root with the user executing the job

[#2]

Which Ambari version did you use to install the cluster?

Ambari fixed the issue in its 2.1.1 version, see AMBARI-12415. The issue was with the setting of property "yarn.admin.acl" value.

[#3]

this is in Sandbox 2.3.2

[#4]

Hi Artem,

You have steps to repro? I run a tez job and don't get the behavior.

Regards,

Robert

[#5]

@rmolina@hortonworks.com same here sandbox 2.3.2. it's easy to reproduce, it happens to all applications created by spark-shell, spark-submit or zeppelin

[#6]

not just spark, mapreduce as well. I ran an oozie job that executes a pig script in mapreduce mode and it prompted that message

[#7]

@rmolina@hortonworks.com I was just able to confirm this behavior on the latest 2.3.2 sandbox when you go to Resource Manager UI , you get the same error message [Dr.Who]

[#8 · Accepted solution]

This should help:

PROBLEM Customer unable to see logs via Resource Manager UI due to incorrect permissions for the default user dr.who.

RESOLUTION Customer changed the following property in core-site.xml to resolve the issue. Other values such as hdfs or mapred also resolve the issue. If the cluster is managed by Ambari, this should be added in Ambari > HDFS > Configurations >Advanced core-site > Add Property

hadoop.http.staticuser.user=yarn

[#9]

Just tested this, it does work, can we set this by default in the future Sandbox releases?

[#10]

Applied the suggested parameter on our env cluster, and it works!

Thanks!

https://community.hortonworks.com/questions/43331/user-drwho-is-not-authorized-to-view-the-logs.html