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-# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-# contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
-# this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-# The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
-# (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-# the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-# limitations under the License.
-
-# Properties prefixed with accumulo.examples are not general Accumulo properties
-# and are only used by example code in this repository. All other properties are
-# general Accumulo properties parsed by Accumulo's ClientConfiguration
-
-instance.zookeeper.host=localhost:2181
-instance.name=your-instance-name
-accumulo.examples.principal=root
-accumulo.examples.password=secret
-
-# Currently the examples only support authentication via username and password.
-# Kerberos authentication is currently not supported in the utility code used
-# by all of the examples.