diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
index efbe0a3ed6c..75f53fe51e9 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1792,6 +1792,9 @@ Release 0.23.0 - Unreleased
     MAPREDUCE-3264. mapreduce.job.user.name needs to be set automatically.
     (acmurthy via mahadev)
 
+    MAPREDUCE-3175. Add authorization to admin web-pages such as /stacks, /jmx
+    etc. (Jonathan Eagles via acmurthy)
+
 Release 0.22.0 - Unreleased
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/security/AdminACLsManager.java b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/security/AdminACLsManager.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..3a29450832e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/security/AdminACLsManager.java
@@ -0,0 +1,140 @@
+/**
+ * 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.
+ */
+
+package org.apache.hadoop.yarn.security;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+
+import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
+import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
+
+import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
+import org.apache.hadoop.security.authorize.AccessControlList;
+import org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation;
+import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.conf.YarnConfiguration;
+import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.YarnException;
+
+public class AdminACLsManager {
+
+  /**
+   * Log object for this class
+   */
+  static Log LOG = LogFactory.getLog(AdminACLsManager.class);
+
+  /**
+   * The current user at the time of object creation
+   */
+  private final UserGroupInformation owner;
+
+  /**
+   * Holds list of administrator users
+   */
+  private final AccessControlList adminAcl;
+
+  /**
+   * True if ACLs are enabled
+   *
+   * @see YarnConfiguration#YARN_ACL_ENABLE
+   * @see YarnConfiguration#DEFAULT_YARN_ACL_ENABLE
+   */
+  private final boolean aclsEnabled;
+
+  /**
+   * Constructs and initializes this AdminACLsManager
+   *
+   * @param conf configuration for this object to use
+   */
+  public AdminACLsManager(Configuration conf) {
+
+    this.adminAcl = new AccessControlList(conf.get(
+          YarnConfiguration.YARN_ADMIN_ACL,
+          YarnConfiguration.DEFAULT_YARN_ADMIN_ACL));
+    try {
+      owner = UserGroupInformation.getCurrentUser();
+      adminAcl.addUser(owner.getShortUserName());
+    } catch (IOException e){
+      LOG.warn("Could not add current user to admin:" + e);
+      throw new YarnException(e);
+    }
+
+    aclsEnabled = conf.getBoolean(YarnConfiguration.YARN_ACL_ENABLE,
+        YarnConfiguration.DEFAULT_YARN_ACL_ENABLE);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Returns the owner
+   *
+   * @return Current user at the time of object creation
+   */
+  public UserGroupInformation getOwner() {
+    return owner;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Returns whether ACLs are enabled
+   *
+   * @see YarnConfiguration#YARN_ACL_ENABLE
+   * @see YarnConfiguration#DEFAULT_YARN_ACL_ENABLE
+   * @return <tt>true</tt> if ACLs are enabled
+   */
+  public boolean areACLsEnabled() {
+    return aclsEnabled;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Returns the internal structure used to maintain administrator ACLs
+   *
+   * @return Structure used to maintain administrator access
+   */
+  public AccessControlList getAdminAcl() {
+    return adminAcl;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Returns whether the specified user/group is an administrator
+   *
+   * @param callerUGI user/group to to check
+   * @return <tt>true</tt> if the UserGroupInformation specified
+   *         is a member of the access control list for administrators
+   */
+  public boolean isAdmin(UserGroupInformation callerUGI) {
+    return adminAcl.isUserAllowed(callerUGI);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Returns whether the specified user/group has administrator access
+   *
+   * @param callerUGI user/group to to check
+   * @return <tt>true</tt> if the UserGroupInformation specified
+   *         is a member of the access control list for administrators
+   *         and ACLs are enabled for this cluster
+   *
+   * @see #getAdminAcl
+   * @see #areACLsEnabled
+   */
+  public boolean checkAccess(UserGroupInformation callerUGI) {
+
+    // Any user may perform this operation if authorization is not enabled
+    if (!areACLsEnabled()) {
+      return true;
+    }
+
+    // Administrators may perform any operation
+    return isAdmin(callerUGI);
+  }
+}
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/webapp/WebApps.java b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/webapp/WebApps.java
index 9518e0f6303..42e4ce4d7a9 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/webapp/WebApps.java
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/webapp/WebApps.java
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
 import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;
 import org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration;
 import org.apache.hadoop.http.HttpServer;
+import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.security.AdminACLsManager;
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
 import org.slf4j.LoggerFactory;
 
@@ -178,7 +179,7 @@ public class WebApps {
         }
         HttpServer server =
             new HttpServer(name, bindAddress, port, findPort, conf, 
-            webapp.getServePathSpecs());
+            new AdminACLsManager(conf).getAdminAcl(), null, webapp.getServePathSpecs());
         for(ServletStruct struct: servlets) {
           server.addServlet(struct.name, struct.spec, struct.clazz);
         }
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/security/ApplicationACLsManager.java b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/security/ApplicationACLsManager.java
index f04e7ec403a..af77f84c55c 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/security/ApplicationACLsManager.java
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-yarn/hadoop-yarn-server/hadoop-yarn-server-common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/yarn/server/security/ApplicationACLsManager.java
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ import org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation;
 import org.apache.hadoop.security.authorize.AccessControlList;
 import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.api.records.ApplicationId;
 import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.api.records.ApplicationAccessType;
-import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.conf.YarnConfiguration;
+import org.apache.hadoop.yarn.security.AdminACLsManager;
 
 @InterfaceAudience.Private
 public class ApplicationACLsManager {
@@ -41,20 +41,17 @@ public class ApplicationACLsManager {
       .getLog(ApplicationACLsManager.class);
 
   private final Configuration conf;
-  private final AccessControlList adminAcl;
+  private final AdminACLsManager adminAclsManager;
   private final ConcurrentMap<ApplicationId, Map<ApplicationAccessType, AccessControlList>> applicationACLS
     = new ConcurrentHashMap<ApplicationId, Map<ApplicationAccessType, AccessControlList>>();
 
   public ApplicationACLsManager(Configuration conf) {
     this.conf = conf;
-    this.adminAcl = new AccessControlList(conf.get(
-        YarnConfiguration.YARN_ADMIN_ACL,
-        YarnConfiguration.DEFAULT_YARN_ADMIN_ACL));
+    this.adminAclsManager = new AdminACLsManager(conf);
   }
 
   public boolean areACLsEnabled() {
-    return conf.getBoolean(YarnConfiguration.YARN_ACL_ENABLE,
-        YarnConfiguration.DEFAULT_YARN_ACL_ENABLE);
+    return adminAclsManager.areACLsEnabled();
   }
 
   public void addApplication(ApplicationId appId,
@@ -107,7 +104,7 @@ public class ApplicationACLsManager {
         .get(applicationId).get(applicationAccessType);
 
     // Allow application-owner for any type of access on the application
-    if (this.adminAcl.isUserAllowed(callerUGI)
+    if (this.adminAclsManager.isAdmin(callerUGI)
         || user.equals(applicationOwner)
         || applicationACL.isUserAllowed(callerUGI)) {
       return true;