diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
index 735d278c8c1..3434f104ce1 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/CHANGES.txt
@@ -349,6 +349,9 @@ Branch-2 ( Unreleased changes )
     HADOOP-8585. Fix initialization circularity between UserGroupInformation
     and HadoopConfiguration. (Colin Patrick McCabe via atm)
 
+    HADOOP-8552. Conflict: Same security.log.file for multiple users. 
+    (kkambatl via tucu)
+
   BREAKDOWN OF HDFS-3042 SUBTASKS
 
     HADOOP-8220. ZKFailoverController doesn't handle failure to become active
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/conf/log4j.properties b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/conf/log4j.properties
index 63e27cf72f8..4c49da0ad9f 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/conf/log4j.properties
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/conf/log4j.properties
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ hadoop.security.logger=INFO,NullAppender
 hadoop.security.log.maxfilesize=256MB
 hadoop.security.log.maxbackupindex=20
 log4j.category.SecurityLogger=${hadoop.security.logger}
-hadoop.security.log.file=SecurityAuth.audit
+hadoop.security.log.file=SecurityAuth-${user.name}.audit
 log4j.appender.RFAS=org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender 
 log4j.appender.RFAS.File=${hadoop.log.dir}/${hadoop.security.log.file}
 log4j.appender.RFAS.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
diff --git a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/packages/templates/conf/log4j.properties b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/packages/templates/conf/log4j.properties
index 63e27cf72f8..4c49da0ad9f 100644
--- a/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/packages/templates/conf/log4j.properties
+++ b/hadoop-common-project/hadoop-common/src/main/packages/templates/conf/log4j.properties
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ hadoop.security.logger=INFO,NullAppender
 hadoop.security.log.maxfilesize=256MB
 hadoop.security.log.maxbackupindex=20
 log4j.category.SecurityLogger=${hadoop.security.logger}
-hadoop.security.log.file=SecurityAuth.audit
+hadoop.security.log.file=SecurityAuth-${user.name}.audit
 log4j.appender.RFAS=org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender 
 log4j.appender.RFAS.File=${hadoop.log.dir}/${hadoop.security.log.file}
 log4j.appender.RFAS.layout=org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout