Re: Implement directory/table level access control in HDFS

2013-08-22 Thread Erik fang
HDFS-5126 https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-5126 has been created for HDFS user impersonation, and I will develop a prototype in a few weeks Thanks, Erik.fang On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 3:07 PM, Erik fang fme...@gmail.com wrote: Hi folks, HDFS has a POSIX-like permission model,

Implement directory/table level access control in HDFS

2013-08-20 Thread Erik fang
Hi folks, HDFS has a POSIX-like permission model, using R,W,X and owner, group, other for access control. It is good most of the time, except for: 1. Data need to be shared among users group can be used for access control, and the users has to be in the same GROUP as the data. the GROUP here