I'm at a loss here. Check out my groups and the directory permissions: [tellis@laxhadoop1-012 ~] :) groups tellis hdfs supergroup [tellis@laxhadoop1-012 ~] :) hadoop fs -mkdir /tmp/hive-tellis mkdir: org.apache.hadoop.security.AccessControlException: Permission denied: user=tellis, access=WRITE, inode="/tmp":hdfs:supergroup:drwxrwxr-x
Note that /tmp is hdfs:supergroup:drwxrwxr-x - that is, the "supergroup" group should be able to write into that dir, and that I am part of that group, but still I can't write into it. So now you might wonder... is it possible for tellis to ever create something inside /tmp? If I chmod 777 /tmp using the hdfs user... [hdfs@laxhadoop1-012 ~/tmp] :) hadoop fs -chmod 777 /tmp Then tellis has access to mkdir in /tmp. [tellis@laxhadoop1-012 ~] :) hadoop fs -mkdir /tmp/hive-tellis [tellis@laxhadoop1-012 ~] :) echo "confusing permissions issue" | hadoop fs -put - /tmp/hive-tellis/somefile [tellis@laxhadoop1-012 ~] :) hadoop fs -cat /tmp/hive-tellis/somefile confusing permissions issue I'm really confused. What am I missing? -- Tim Ellis Data Architect, Riot Games
