Awesome. I've never actually tried this myself, but it looks like you should be able to configure the Remote Owner and the Remote Group as properties of PutHDFS. Additionally, it states that this only works if NiFi is running as a user that has HDFS super user privileges. Can you confirm that is the case here? Thanks.
Matt On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 2:19 PM, Christopher Wilson <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, I'm over that hurdle. What about configuring PutHDFS then? Still > pretty lost here. > > -Chris > > On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 1:28 PM, Matt Gilman <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Does the user you specified have access to the directory structure where >> NiFi is installed? Specifically do they have access to >> lib/bootstrap/nifi-bootstrap-<version>.jar? Are there any more details with >> that error message? >> >> Just to be sure, do they have access to all paths configured in >> conf/nifi.properties (assuming you've changed them from defaults)? >> >> Matt >> >> >> On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 1:21 PM, Christopher Wilson <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> What version are you running? I'm getting "Error: Could not find or >>> load class org.apache.nifi.bootstrap.RunNiFi" when I change to a different >>> user. >>> >>> -Chris >>> >>> On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 12:52 PM, Matt Gilman <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Chris, >>>> >>>> You shouldn't need to run NiFi as root. What is currently preventing >>>> you from doing so? Are you setting the run.as user in the >>>> conf/bootstrap.conf file? >>>> >>>> Matt >>>> >>>> On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 12:42 PM, Christopher Wilson < >>>> [email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> I have a question regarding configuration of PutHDFS. I'm running >>>>> NiFi as root (because I can't find how not to) and I've installed NiFi on >>>>> a >>>>> client node in my Hadoop cluster (HDP 2.3). I can't find where to tell >>>>> PutHDFS to put files as a specific user. Not that strong on Hadoop >>>>> configuration so any help appreciated. >>>>> >>>>> Thanks in advance. >>>>> >>>>> Nifi version 0.2.1 >>>>> Java version 1.7 >>>>> RedHat 6.7 >>>>> >>>>> PutHDFS[id=65cf6d5a-d5fb-4b77-82b5-f1d71a80ef72] Failed to write to >>>>> HDFS due to org.apache.nifi.processor.exception.ProcessException: >>>>> IOException thrown from PutHDFS[id=65cf6d5a-d5fb-4b77-82b5-f1d71a80ef72]: >>>>> org.apache.hadoop.security.AccessControlException: Permission denied: >>>>> user=root, access=WRITE, >>>>> inode="/user/NOT-ROOT/.file.log":not-root:hdfs:drwxrwxr-x >>>>> >>>>> -Chris >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >> >
