Hey Philip,
how do you get spark to write to hdfs with your user name? When i use spark
it writes to hdfs as the user that runs the spark services... i wish it
read and wrote as me.


On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 6:37 PM, Philip Ogren <philip.og...@oracle.com>wrote:

> When I call rdd.saveAsTextFile("hdfs://...") it uses my username to write
> to the HDFS drive.  If I try to write to an HDFS directory that I do not
> have permissions to, then I get an error like this:
>
> Permission denied: user=me, access=WRITE, inode="/user/you/":you:us:
> drwxr-xr-x
>
> I can obviously get around this by changing the permissions on the
> directory /user/you.  However, is it possible to call rdd.saveAsText with
> an alternate username and password?
>
> Thanks,
> Philip
>

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