Hum... It seems that I have to use the new publisher and consumer API, and not the old one. Now it works but I still have warnings in kafka.out... With 6 lines of warning every second, I will quickly have a problem. ... View more

Hi Neeraj I am trying to do exactly the same thing, ie using ranger with a non kerberized Kafka. Unfortunately I have following error : [root@mykafka kafka]# tail -f kafka.out [2016-06-15 15:45:34,002] WARN got exception trying to get groups for user ANONYMOUS: id: ANONYMOUS: no such user (org.apache.hadoop.security.ShellBasedUnixGroupsMapping) [2016-06-15 15:45:34,002] WARN No groups available for user ANONYMOUS (org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation) The public group should be mapped to an ANONYMOUS user. https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/RANGER/Kafka+Plugin#KafkaPlugin-WhydowehavetospecifypublicusergrouponallpoliciesitemscreatedforauthorizingKafkaaccessovernon-securechannel? Did you do something special to declare it manually within ranger ? Can you share the list of declared users within ranger ? Thx in advance. Regards ... View more