diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index b8afc6b7ce2..dcefcc47461 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -688,6 +688,9 @@ Release 0.23.0 - Unreleased
     HADOOP-7708. Fixed hadoop-setup-conf.sh to handle config files
     consistently.  (Eric Yang)
 
+    HADOOP-7724. Fixed hadoop-setup-conf.sh to put proxy user in
+    core-site.xml.  (Arpit Gupta via Eric Yang)
+
 Release 0.22.0 - Unreleased
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/packages/hadoop-setup-conf.sh b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/packages/hadoop-setup-conf.sh
index 8d54b2e41df..2bf2742ca9f 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/packages/hadoop-setup-conf.sh
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/packages/hadoop-setup-conf.sh
@@ -139,6 +139,7 @@ function addPropertyToXMLConf
 #########################################
 function setupProxyUsers
 {
+  local conf_file="${HADOOP_CONF_DIR}/core-site.xml"
   #if hadoop proxy users are sent, setup hadoop proxy
   if [ ! -z $HADOOP_PROXY_USERS ]
   then
@@ -156,10 +157,10 @@ function setupProxyUsers
       #determine the property names and values
       proxy_groups_property="hadoop.proxyuser.${user}.groups"
       proxy_groups_val="$groups"
-      addPropertyToXMLConf "${HADOOP_CONF_DIR}/hdfs-site.xml" "$proxy_groups_property" "$proxy_groups_val"
+      addPropertyToXMLConf "$conf_file" "$proxy_groups_property" "$proxy_groups_val"
       proxy_hosts_property="hadoop.proxyuser.${user}.hosts"
       proxy_hosts_val="$hosts"
-      addPropertyToXMLConf "${HADOOP_CONF_DIR}/hdfs-site.xml" "$proxy_hosts_property" "$proxy_hosts_val"
+      addPropertyToXMLConf "$conf_file" "$proxy_hosts_property" "$proxy_hosts_val"
       IFS=';'
     done
     IFS=$oldIFS