Quoting Lars Francke (2019-06-21 17:12:10) > Hi Markus, Hi Lars,
> ...nothing is stopping you from having your > data owned by someone other than Hive as long as Hive can access the data. > > This happens quite frequently when other tools ingest data into a directory > that hive uses (whether this would be better as an external table is another > discussion). Ok. Sounds reasonable, I mean the official docu from HDP describes it more strictly, but... The question is if enterprise users will change the official documented configuration/setup. > In Ranger you specify ACLs for users but - in this case - you'd specify them > for Hive objects... > Sentry works slightly different: Here you grant access to Hive objects as well > but Sentry can automatically also grant HDFS access. Ah ok. Didn't know that difference. > You are correct though that an external user shouldn't meddle with "internals" > but I see no harm in getting read-only access. Yes, I think also read access is ok. > Hope that helps. Yes, sure. Thanks for the quick answer. > Cheers, > Lars Cheers Marko
