Ambari Security Guide
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Commands

This section contains the specific commands that must be issued for standard agent operations:

# Ambari Commands
ambari ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:SETENV: /usr/bin/yum,/usr/bin/zypper,/usr/bin/apt-get, /bin/mkdir, /usr/bin/test, /bin/ln, /bin/chown, /bin/chmod, /bin/chgrp, /usr/sbin/groupadd, /usr/sbin/groupmod, /usr/sbin/useradd, /usr/sbin/usermod, /bin/cp, /usr/sbin/setenforce, /usr/bin/test, /usr/bin/stat, /bin/mv, /bin/sed, /bin/rm, /bin/kill, /bin/readlink, /usr/bin/pgrep, /bin/cat, /usr/bin/unzip, /bin/tar, /usr/bin/tee, /bin/touch, /usr/bin/hdp-select, /usr/bin/conf-select, /usr/hdp/current/hadoop-client/sbin/hadoop-daemon.sh, /usr/lib/hadoop/bin/hadoop-daemon.sh, /usr/lib/hadoop/sbin/hadoop-daemon.sh, /sbin/chkconfig gmond off, /sbin/chkconfig gmetad off, /etc/init.d/httpd *, /sbin/service hdp-gmetad start, /sbin/service hdp-gmond start, /usr/sbin/gmond, /usr/sbin/update-rc.d ganglia-monitor *, /usr/sbin/update-rc.d gmetad *, /etc/init.d/apache2 *, /usr/sbin/service hdp-gmond *, /usr/sbin/service hdp-gmetad *, /sbin/service mysqld *, /usr/bin/python2.6 /var/lib/ambari-agent/data/tmp/validateKnoxStatus.py *, /usr/hdp/current/knox-server/bin/knoxcli.sh *
# Ambari Ranger Commands
ambari ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:SETENV: /usr/hdp/*/ranger-usersync/setup.sh, /usr/bin/ranger-usersync-stop, /usr/bin/ranger-usersync-start, /usr/hdp/*/ranger-admin/setup.sh *, /usr/hdp/*/ranger-knox-plugin/disable-knox-plugin.sh *, /usr/hdp/*/ranger-storm-plugin/disable-storm-plugin.sh *, /usr/hdp/*/ranger-hbase-plugin/disable-hbase-plugin.sh *, /usr/hdp/*/ranger-hdfs-plugin/disable-hdfs-plugin.sh *,  /usr/hdp/current/ranger-admin/ranger_credential_helper.py, /usr/hdp/current/ranger-kms/ranger_credential_helper.py, /usr/hdp/*/ranger-*/ranger_credential_helper.py
[Important]Important

Do not modify the command lists, only the usernames in the Customizable Users section may be modified.

To re-iterate, you must do this sudo configuration on every node in the cluster. To ensure that the configuration has been done properly, you can su to the ambari user and run sudo -l. There, you can double check that there are no warnings, and that the configuration output matches what was just applied.