Dale, can you send across screenshot of the policy as well as what audit is 
showing for this transaction ? 

> On May 6, 2015, at 5:51 AM, Bradman, Dale <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I’m fairly certain that authToLocal is configured properly. Issuing the 
> command:
> 
> $ hdfs groups user1
> 
> Returns:
> 
> user1: user1 group1
> 
> 
>> On 5 May 2015, at 18:34, Don Bosco Durai <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Dale, have you configured authToLocal properly in Hadoop?
>> 
>> Can you try this?
>> 
>> $ hdfs groups user1
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> Bosco
>> 
>> 
>> From: <Bradman>, Dale <[email protected]>
>> Reply-To: "[email protected]" 
>> <[email protected]>
>> Date: Tuesday, May 5, 2015 at 5:57 AM
>> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
>> Subject: Cannot define HBase policy by groups
>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> I am struggling to create policies on HBase defined by a group. Here is 
>>> what I have done:
>>> 
>>> 1. I create a UNIX user “user1” and add this user to the group “group1”. 
>>> 2. Ranger UI syncs with UNIX and shows “user1” as an external user 
>>> belonging to the group “group1”. Also, “group1” is automatically created as 
>>> a new internal group in the groups section.
>>> 3. I create a HBase policy in RangerUI granting “user1” READ permissions on 
>>> all HBase tables. As expected, “user1” is able to read the tables.
>>> 4. I then edit the same policy by also granting “group1” READ permissions 
>>> on all HBase tables. As expected, “user1” is able to read the tables.
>>> 5. I then edit the same policy by removing “user1” entirely thus leaving 
>>> only “group1” with READ permissions. Now, “user1” is unable to read the 
>>> tables despite being a member of “group1”
>>> 
>>> So essentially, what I want to be able to do is assign multiple users to 
>>> “group1” and grant “group1” read access on tables.
>>> 
>>> Can anyone clarify if this is a bug or if I am doing something incorrectly?
>>> 
>>> Thanks, 
>>> Dale
>>> 
>>> 
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> 943935) whose registered office is at No. 1, Forge End, Woking, Surrey, GU21 
> 6DB.

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