What is Sentry?
Apache Sentry is a highly modular system for providing fine grained role based authorization to both data and metadata stored on an Apache Hadoop cluster.
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Building Sentry
Building Sentry requires the following tools:
- Apache Maven 3.0+
- Java JDK 1.6+
Running hive end to end tests requires:
- wget
To compile Sentry, run:
mvn install -DskipTests
To run Sentry tests, run:
mvn test -Pdownload-hadoop
To build a distribution, run:
mvn install
The final Sentry distribution artifacts will be in $project/sentry-dist/target/.