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Casey Brotherton commented on HIVE-6225: ---------------------------------------- The code has changed significantly since this Jira was opened. There are also several Jiras addressing the same: HIVE-7927 HIVE-7895 Cancelling this Jira, will open a new Jira if there is still concerns. > hive.metastore.authorization.storage.checks doesn't respect sticky bit > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-6225 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-6225 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: Bug > Components: Authorization > Reporter: Casey Brotherton > > Sticky bit works on HDFS, preventing a user from removing an item created by > another user in a directory with permissions of 1777. > However, Hive allows the table to be dropped even after setting > hive.metastore.authorization.storage.checks to true and /user/hive/metastore > to 1777 -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)