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Tsz Wo (Nicholas), SZE commented on HADOOP-3913:
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> Instead of the above error message, "Permission denied" message should be
> displayed in order to aviod confusion.
+1 the error message is not clear
BTW, are you sure that you are not a superuser when you copy files from a
directory with permission 000? All permission checking will be ignored for
superusers.
> Distcp allows copy even if directory permissions are 000.
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> Key: HADOOP-3913
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-3913
> Project: Hadoop Core
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: tools/distcp
> Affects Versions: 0.18.0
> Reporter: Suman Sehgal
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> distcp initiated from 0.17.0 and 0.18.0 permissions turned ON, directory with
> permission 000, data gets copied from
> 0.18.0 to 0.17.0
> Data gets copied between different versions of hadoop when tried by the same
> user. It gets failed only if other
> user(other than the user who started cluster) tries to copy data using distcp.
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