On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Ashish Thusoo <[email protected]> wrote: > Not right now. There is no access control built into Hive at this time. > owner information is there right now so that some external tool can use that > information. > > Ashish > ________________________________ > From: Royce Rollins [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 5:13 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Limit deletion of tables by username > > I’m trying to limit the deletion or modification of hive tables by username. > > I noticed the table TBLS has the owner field and gets set to the username > who created it. > > BL_ID | CREATE_TIME | DB_ID | LAST_ACCESS_TIME | OWNER | RETENTION | > SD_ID | TBL_NAME > > Is it possible to do this? Basically I don’t want someone else to do a “Drop > table TABLE_NAME” > > Thanks in Advance, > Royce Rollins
Royce, We have a Jira open on that. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-78. I am assigned, but have not updated it recently. I was waiting on the Apache thrift to get into the trunk. I think that has happened, so I should get started soon :) Edward
