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Yongjun Zhang commented on HDFS-6165:
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What about this: 

fix the code that deals with "-f" switch, if "-f" is passed, then delete empty 
dir without prompting to user. If not, then prompt user or throw exception.

Prompting user would involving feedback from NN to FsShell, FsShell prompt 
user, and FsShell talk to NN again, a bit complex. 

What do you think?

Thanks.





> Directory owner with WRITE permission can't delete empty sub-directory
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HDFS-6165
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-6165
>             Project: Hadoop HDFS
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: hdfs-client
>    Affects Versions: 2.3.0
>            Reporter: Yongjun Zhang
>            Assignee: Yongjun Zhang
>         Attachments: HDFS-6165.001.patch
>
>
> Given a directory owned by user A with permissions 0700 containing an empty 
> directory owned by user B, it is not possible to delete user B's directory. 
> This is incorrect. Write permission on the containing directory should be all 
> that is needed to delete the child directory. Here's a reproduction:
> {code}
> [root@vm01 ~]# hdfs dfs -ls /user/
> Found 4 items
> drwxr-xr-x   - userabc users               0 2013-05-03 01:55 /user/userabc
> drwxr-xr-x   - hdfs    supergroup          0 2013-05-03 00:28 /user/hdfs
> drwxrwxrwx   - mapred  hadoop              0 2013-05-03 00:13 /user/history
> drwxr-xr-x   - hdfs    supergroup          0 2013-04-14 16:46 /user/hive
> [root@vm01 ~]# hdfs dfs -ls /user/userabc
> Found 8 items
> drwx------   - userabc users          0 2013-05-02 17:00 /user/userabc/.Trash
> drwxr-xr-x   - userabc users          0 2013-05-03 01:34 /user/userabc/.cm
> drwx------   - userabc users          0 2013-05-03 01:06 
> /user/userabc/.staging
> drwxr-xr-x   - userabc users          0 2013-04-14 18:31 /user/userabc/apps
> drwxr-xr-x   - userabc users          0 2013-04-30 18:05 /user/userabc/ds
> drwxr-xr-x   - hdfs    users          0 2013-05-03 01:54 /user/userabc/foo
> drwxr-xr-x   - userabc users          0 2013-04-30 16:18 
> /user/userabc/maven_source
> drwxr-xr-x   - hdfs    users          0 2013-05-03 01:40 
> /user/userabc/test-restore
> [root@vm01 ~]# hdfs dfs -ls /user/userabc/foo/
> [root@vm01 ~]# sudo -u userabc hdfs dfs -rm -r -skipTrash /user/userabc/foo
> rm: Permission denied: user=userabc, access=ALL, 
> inode="/user/userabc/foo":hdfs:users:drwxr-xr-x
> {code}
> The super user can delete the directory.
> {code}
> [root@vm01 ~]# sudo -u hdfs hdfs dfs -rm -r -skipTrash /user/userabc/foo
> Deleted /user/userabc/foo
> {code}
> The same is not true for files, however. They have the correct behavior.
> {code}
> [root@vm01 ~]# sudo -u hdfs hdfs dfs -touchz /user/userabc/foo-file
> [root@vm01 ~]# hdfs dfs -ls /user/userabc/
> Found 8 items
> drwx------   - userabc users          0 2013-05-02 17:00 /user/userabc/.Trash
> drwxr-xr-x   - userabc users          0 2013-05-03 01:34 /user/userabc/.cm
> drwx------   - userabc users          0 2013-05-03 01:06 
> /user/userabc/.staging
> drwxr-xr-x   - userabc users          0 2013-04-14 18:31 /user/userabc/apps
> drwxr-xr-x   - userabc users          0 2013-04-30 18:05 /user/userabc/ds
> -rw-r--r--   1 hdfs    users          0 2013-05-03 02:11 
> /user/userabc/foo-file
> drwxr-xr-x   - userabc users          0 2013-04-30 16:18 
> /user/userabc/maven_source
> drwxr-xr-x   - hdfs    users          0 2013-05-03 01:40 
> /user/userabc/test-restore
> [root@vm01 ~]# sudo -u userabc hdfs dfs -rm -skipTrash /user/userabc/foo-file
> Deleted /user/userabc/foo-file
> {code}



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