| What is Sentry? |
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| 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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| Contact us! |
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| * Mailing lists: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SENTRY/Mailing+Lists |
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| Bug and Issues tracker |
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| * https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SENTRY |
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| Wiki |
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| * https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/SENTRY/Home |
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| Building Sentry |
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| Building Sentry requires the following tools: |
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| * Apache Maven 3.2.5+ (Might hit issues with pentaho library with older maven versions) |
| * Java JDK7 (can't access TBase errors with JDK8) |
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| To compile Sentry, run: |
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| mvn install -DskipTests |
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| To run Sentry tests, run: |
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| mvn test |
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| To build a distribution, run: |
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| mvn install |
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| The final Sentry distribution artifacts will be in $project/sentry-dist/target/. |