Additional Ranger Plugin Steps for Kerberos: HBase

How to enable the Ranger HBase plugin on a Kerberos cluster.

1. Create the system (OS) user rangerhbaselookup. Make sure this user is synced to Ranger Admin (under users/groups tab in the Ranger Admin UI).
2. Create a Kerberos principal for rangerhbaselookup: kadmin.local -q 'addprinc -pw rangerhbaselookup rangerhbaselookup@example.com.
3. Navigate to the HBase service.
4. Click the Config tab and go to advanced ranger-hbase-plugin-properties.
5. Update the following properties with the values listed in the table below.

   Table 1. HBase Plugin Properties

   Configuration Property Name	Value
   Ranger service config user	rangerhbaselookup@example.com
   Ranger service config password	rangerhbaselookup
   common.name.for.certificate	blank

6. After updating these properties, click Save and then restart the HBase service.