Hive uses the same core-site.xml settings as HDFS. So if the group mapping work in HDFS, then it should work in Hive also.
And if the user and groups are in linux/unix, then it should have been support out of the box. What version of Hive are you using? (It shouldn¹t matter) Thanks Bosco From: Loïc Chanel <loic.cha...@telecomnancy.net> Reply-To: "user@ranger.incubator.apache.org" <user@ranger.incubator.apache.org> Date: Thursday, July 23, 2015 at 3:10 AM To: "user@ranger.incubator.apache.org" <user@ranger.incubator.apache.org> Subject: Hive server identity assertion > Hi all, > > As I am now exploring how Ranger works with Hive, I made some policies, but it > seems that group policies are not enforced. > Therefore, I was wondering how the Ranger plugin running on Hive was asserting > the user's identity. > > I am even more surprised by the fact that I do not have any problem with > Ranger plugin working on HDFS, which is running on the exact same node. > > In parallel, I know that Know plugin, for example, runs in a totally different > way, but as it seems that, as does HBase, Hive does not provide with any user > mapping function, I thought the identity would be asserted on the node Hive > Server is running on, as if the user was a Unix one. > > Do someone as an idea about how the user groups can be founded by Hive Ranger > plugin ? > Thanks in advance, > > > Loïc > > Loïc CHANEL > Engineering student at TELECOM Nancy > Trainee at Worldline - Villeurbanne
