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Lens –

Authentication and Authorization guide

LensServer uses authentication model from Hive service. The same configuration parameters available in hive can be set for lens server. Hive auth documentation is available at: Hive Doc and Cloudera doc

For enabling LDAP authentication on lens server, admin should set following params in lens-site.xml

hive.server2.authentication LDAP
hive.server2.authentication.ldap.url ldap://host:port/
hive.server2.authentication.ldap.security.protocol ssl