diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
index dd90c8668c..9a6c551a84 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
@@ -918,6 +918,9 @@ Release 2.7.0 - UNRELEASED
     HDFS-7736. Fix typos in dfsadmin/fsck/snapshotDiff usage messages.
     (Brahma Reddy Battula via wheat9)
 
+    HDFS-7771. fuse_dfs should permit FILE: on the front of KRB5CCNAME
+    (cmccabe)
+
 Release 2.6.1 - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/native/fuse-dfs/fuse_connect.c b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/native/fuse-dfs/fuse_connect.c
index 218c5c9ab2..8a2a00b887 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/native/fuse-dfs/fuse_connect.c
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/native/fuse-dfs/fuse_connect.c
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
 #include <search.h>
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <stdlib.h>
+#include <string.h>
 #include <sys/time.h>
 #include <sys/types.h>
 #include <utime.h>
@@ -358,6 +359,15 @@ static void hdfsConnExpiry(void)
   pthread_mutex_unlock(&gConnMutex);
 }
 
+// The Kerberos FILE: prefix.  This indicates that the kerberos ticket cache
+// specifier is a file.  (Note that we also assume that the specifier is a file
+// if no prefix is present.)
+#define KRB_FILE_PREFIX "FILE:"
+
+// Length of the Kerberos file prefix, which is equal to the string size in
+// bytes minus 1 (because we don't count the null terminator in the length.)
+#define KRB_FILE_PREFIX_LEN (sizeof(KRB_FILE_PREFIX) - 1)
+
 /**
  * Find the Kerberos ticket cache path.
  *
@@ -414,6 +424,12 @@ done:
   } else {
     path[pathIdx] = '\0';
   }
+  if (strncmp(path, KRB_FILE_PREFIX, KRB_FILE_PREFIX_LEN) == 0) {
+    fprintf(stderr, "stripping " KRB_FILE_PREFIX " from the front of "
+            "KRB5CCNAME.\n");
+    memmove(path, path + KRB_FILE_PREFIX_LEN,
+            strlen(path + KRB_FILE_PREFIX_LEN) + 1);
+  }
 }
 
 /**