diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
index 72b6b0717b..e0b33bd2f6 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -806,6 +806,9 @@ Release 0.23.3 - UNRELEASED
     MAPREDUCE-4503. Should throw InvalidJobConfException if duplicates found in
     cacheArchives or cacheFiles (Robert Evans via jeagles)
 
+    MAPREDUCE-3782. teragen terasort jobs fail when using webhdfs:// (Jason
+    Lowe via bobby)
+
 Release 0.23.2 - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-examples/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/examples/terasort/TeraOutputFormat.java b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-examples/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/examples/terasort/TeraOutputFormat.java
index 9cde04a78c..872e71917b 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-examples/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/examples/terasort/TeraOutputFormat.java
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-examples/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/examples/terasort/TeraOutputFormat.java
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
 import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.TaskAttemptContext;
 import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.output.FileOutputCommitter;
 import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.lib.output.FileOutputFormat;
+import org.apache.hadoop.mapreduce.security.TokenCache;
 
 /**
  * An output format that writes the key and value appended together.
@@ -85,6 +86,10 @@ public void checkOutputSpecs(JobContext job
     if (outDir == null) {
       throw new InvalidJobConfException("Output directory not set in JobConf.");
     }
+
+    // get delegation token for outDir's file system
+    TokenCache.obtainTokensForNamenodes(job.getCredentials(),
+        new Path[] { outDir }, job.getConfiguration());
   }
 
   public RecordWriter<Text,Text> getRecordWriter(TaskAttemptContext job