whoami and hadoop always send linux account name as hadoop user name

When we use hadoop eclipse plugin, we find that it always send local linux account name as hadoop account to the hadoop cluster. Who am I? The trick is that hadoop use linux command whoami to get account info. Relevant code could be find in class org.apache.hadoop.util.Shell.java

  /** a Unix command to get the current user's name */
  public final static String USER_NAME_COMMAND = "whoami";
  /** a Unix command to get the current user's groups list */
  public static String[] getGroupsCommand() {
    return new String[]{"bash", "-c", "groups"};
  }
  /** a Unix command to get a given user's groups list */
  public static String[] getGroupsForUserCommand(final String user) {
    //'groups username' command return is non-consistent across different unixes
    return new String [] {"bash", "-c", "id -Gn " + user};
  }
  /** a Unix command to get a given netgroup's user list */
  public static String[] getUsersForNetgroupCommand(final String netgroup) {
    //'groups username' command return is non-consistent across different unixes
    return new String [] {"bash", "-c", "getent netgroup " + netgroup};
  }
  /** a Unix command to set permission */
  public static final String SET_PERMISSION_COMMAND = "chmod";
  /** a Unix command to set owner */
  public static final String SET_OWNER_COMMAND = "chown";
  public static final String SET_GROUP_COMMAND = "chgrp";
  /** Return a Unix command to get permission information. */
  public static String[] getGET_PERMISSION_COMMAND() {
    //force /bin/ls, except on windows.
    return new String[] {(WINDOWS ? "ls" : "/bin/ls"), "-ld"};
  }

So, a simple way to solve this.

1. create a shell script file named as iamwho.sh and its content as simple as below,
   

   echo "hadoopuser"
   

2. edit .bash_profile
   

    vi ~/.bash_profile 

3. add a line as below,
   

    alias whoami="~/local/bin/iamwho.sh" 

4. enable the modifition in current shell console,

    source ~/.bash_profile 

5. run command to check whoami command has been overwrited.

    
   [yiyujia@localhost bin]$ whoami
   hadoopuser
   [yiyujia@localhost bin]$ 
    

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11041253/set-hadoop-system-user-for-client-embedded-in-java-webapp