"Permission Denied" message for non-existing file/dir. ------------------------------------------------------
Key: HADOOP-6057 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-6057 Project: Hadoop Core Issue Type: Bug Components: dfs Affects Versions: 0.20.0 Reporter: Suman Sehgal Priority: Minor hdfs gives permission denied message for non-existent file/dir. command : ======== bin/hadoop dfs -cat /user/<user1>out/part-00000/<dir>/<file> by <user1> For the above mentioned command, it should return "file doesn't exists" message but the error message displayed is : cat: org.apache.hadoop.security.AccessControlException: Permission denied: user=<user1>, access=EXECUTE, inode="part-00000":<user1>:users:rw------- -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.