Thanks for the information. On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 10:39 PM, Alan Gates <[email protected]> wrote:
> By group here I assume you mean posix style file group (from HDFS)? No, > there isn’t any connection right now. We’d like to be able to pick up > groups from HDFS and define those as roles in Hive, but we haven’t added > that feature. > > You’ll need to define a role that includes the members of that group. > > Alan. > > > On May 12, 2016, at 02:01, kumar r <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I have configured hive-1.2.1 with Hadoop-2.7.2. I have enabled SQL > standard based authorization. > > > > I can give permission for user or roles. i cannot find any option for > groups. > > > > Is there any feature available for group permission on Hive SQL standard > based authorization? > > > > When i am trying to execute below command getting exception, > > > > grant select on sample to group Testing; > > > > Exception > > > > Error: Error while processing statement: FAILED: Execution Error, return > > code 1 from org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask. Invalid principal > > type in principal Principal [name=Testing, type=GROUP] > (state=08S01,code=1) > > > > Stack overflow question: > > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/37070419/hive-authorization-dont-have-support-for-group > > > > Thanks, > > Kumar > > > >
