You should be able to change permissions at will, as the owner of the entry. There is certainly no bug there, as demonstrated by below in HDFS 2.x:
➜ ~ hadoop fs -ls Found 1 item drwxr-xr-x - harsh harsh 0 2013-04-10 07:03 bin ➜ ~ hadoop fs -chmod 411 bin ➜ ~ hadoop fs -ls bin ls: Permission denied: user=harsh, access=READ_EXECUTE, inode="/user/harsh/bin":harsh:harsh:dr----x--x ➜ ~ hadoop fs -chmod 755 bin ➜ ~ hadoop fs -ls bin Found 2 items -rw-r--r-- 3 harsh harsh 693508 2013-04-10 07:03 bin/wordcount -rw-r--r-- 3 harsh harsh 873736 2013-04-10 06:56 bin/wordcount-simple On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 6:32 PM, Steve Lewis <lordjoe2...@gmail.com> wrote: > In trying to set file permissions using the Java API I managed to set the > permissions on a directory to > dr----x--x > > Now I can neither change them or get rid of the file > I tried fs -rmr but I get permission issues > > > > -- > -- Harsh J
