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Alan Gates commented on HIVE-78: -------------------------------- There's been quite a bit of discussion back and forth in this JIRA on who owns the files (Hive or the user) and who MR jobs execute as. The answers to these questions are very important, but I wasn't able to decipher from the JIRA how they were answered. Was one approach or another selected? > Authorization infrastructure for Hive > ------------------------------------- > > Key: HIVE-78 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-78 > Project: Hive > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: Metastore, Query Processor, Server Infrastructure > Reporter: Ashish Thusoo > Assignee: He Yongqiang > Attachments: createuser-v1.patch, hive-78-metadata-v1.patch, > hive-78-syntax-v1.patch, HIVE-78.1.nothrift.patch, HIVE-78.1.thrift.patch, > HIVE-78.2.nothrift.patch, HIVE-78.2.thrift.patch, HIVE-78.4.complete.patch, > HIVE-78.4.no_thrift.patch, HIVE-78.5.complete.patch, > HIVE-78.5.no_thrift.patch, HIVE-78.6.complete.patch, > HIVE-78.6.no_thrift.patch, HIVE-78.7.no_thrift.patch, HIVE-78.7.patch, > hive-78.diff > > > Allow hive to integrate with existing user repositories for authentication > and authorization infromation. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.