diff --git a/suites/hadoop/basic/clusters/fixed-3.yaml b/suites/hadoop/basic/clusters/fixed-3.yaml
index 708d751178c74..7b6624a0317a7 100644
--- a/suites/hadoop/basic/clusters/fixed-3.yaml
+++ b/suites/hadoop/basic/clusters/fixed-3.yaml
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+overrides:
+  ceph:
+    conf:
+      client:
+        client permissions: false
 roles:
 - [mon.0, mds.0, osd.0, hadoop.master.0]
 - [mon.1, osd.1, hadoop.slave.0]