Chris Nauroth created HDFS-9552: ----------------------------------- Summary: Document types of permission checks performed for HDFS operations. Key: HDFS-9552 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-9552 Project: Hadoop HDFS Issue Type: Improvement Components: documentation Reporter: Chris Nauroth Assignee: Chris Nauroth
The HDFS permissions guide discusses our use of a POSIX-like model with read, write and execute permissions associated with users, groups and the catch-all other class. However, there is no documentation that describes exactly what permission checks are performed by user-facing HDFS operations. This is a frequent source of questions, so it would be good to document this. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)