Mithun Radhakrishnan created HIVE-6392:
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Summary: Hive (and HCatalog) don't allow super-users to add
partitions to tables.
Key: HIVE-6392
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-6392
Project: Hive
Issue Type: Bug
Components: Authorization
Affects Versions: 0.12.0, 0.13.0
Reporter: Mithun Radhakrishnan
Assignee: Mithun Radhakrishnan
HDFS allows for users to be added to a "supergroup" (identified by the
"dfs.permissions.superusergroup" key in hdfs-site.xml). Users in this group are
allowed to modify HDFS contents regardless of the path's ogw permissions.
However, Hive's StorageBasedAuthProvider disallows such a superuser from adding
partitions to any table that doesn't explicitly grant write permissions to said
superuser. This causes the odd scenario where the superuser writes data to a
partition-directory (under the table's path), but can't register the
appropriate partition.
I have a patch that brings the Metastore's behaviour in line with what the HDFS
allows.
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