Here is a bash script I used a couple of years ago for creating Hadoop users from CLI (or batch). It might be useful for someone.

The script does the following:

• creates a Linux user
• generates keys
• creates home directory in HDFS
• adds user to a group
• allocates HDFS space quota
• gives access in Ambari Views

#!/bin/bash

NEW_USER="$1"
DEPT_NAME="$2"
NAMENODE="t-namenode1"
AMBARI="t-ambari"

#
echo "Creating user "$NEW_USER

#Creating user with no password with user's folder
sudo adduser --disabled-password --gecos "" $NEW_USER

#Create Linux user on the namenode
ssh -i /home/ubuntu/.ssh/key $NAMENODE 'sudo adduser --disabled-password --gecos "" $NEW_USER && sudo chown $NEW_USER:$NEW_USER /home/$NEW_USER'

#Prepare .ssh folder
cd /user/$NEW_USER
sudo mkdir .ssh
sudo chown $NEW_USER:$NEW_USER .ssh/
sudo chmod 700 .ssh

#Create private and public key
sudo -u $NEW_USER  ssh-keygen -t rsa -f $NEW_USER-key

#Copy public key to the authorized_keys
sudo -u $NEW_USER cp $NEW_USER-key.pub .ssh/authorized_keys
sudo -u $NEW_USER chmod 600 .ssh/authorized_keys

#######HDFS
echo "Create system folder for user"
sudo -u hdfs hadoop fs -mkdir /user/$NEW_USER
echo "Change owner of the system folder"
sudo -u hdfs hadoop fs -chown $NEW_USER:hdfs /user/$NEW_USER

#Defining HDFS space quota
echo "Allocate 100g of space on HDFS for the user"
sudo -su hdfs hdfs dfsadmin -setSpaceQuota 100g /department/$DEPT_NAME/users/$NEW_USER

#Access to Ambari Views
curl -iv -u admin:admin -H "X-Requested-By: ambari" -X POST -d  '{"Users/user_name": "$USER_NAME", "Users/password":  "$USER_NAME", "Users/active": true, "Users/admin": false }' http://$AMBARI:8080/api/v1/users

#Add user to a group in Ambari Views
curl -iv -u admin:admin -H "X-Requested-By: ambari" -X POST -d '[{"MemberInfo/user_name":"$NEW_USER", "MemberInfo/group_name":"$DEPT_NAME"}]' http://$AMBARI:8080/api/v1/groups/$DEPT_NAME/members

echo "User's folder on the client:"
ls -l /user/$NEW_USER

echo "User's system folder on HDFS:"
sudo -u $HDFS hadoop fs -ls /user/$NEW_USER