# About Authenticates to Hadoop

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/about-authenticates-to-hadoop/242447>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Tags:** es-hadoop\
**Created:** [July 24, 2020, 5:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/about-authenticates-to-hadoop/242447 "2020-07-24T05:01:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![loopong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d9b06d/32.png) [@loopong](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/loopong)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2020, 5:01am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/about-authenticates-to-hadoop/242447/1 "2020-07-24T05:01:24Z")

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I‘m using the repository-hdfs plugin to back up our indices. I know that we can use the keytab file in ES\_HOME/config/repository-hdfs/krb5.keytab to get Authenticates to Hadoop, but is there any other ways? For example, can we use a use name and password to do this?

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 21, 2020, 5:05am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/about-authenticates-to-hadoop/242447/2 "2020-08-21T05:05:26Z")

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