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Thejas M Nair closed HCATALOG-401.
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> hcat database/table permissions are governed by permissions of the base dir
> of database/table
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> Key: HCATALOG-401
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HCATALOG-401
> Project: HCatalog
> Issue Type: Bug
> Affects Versions: 0.4
> Reporter: Thejas M Nair
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> In usual setup of hcat/hive, the warehouse directory is writeable by
> everyone. This means that a database or table in default database can be
> deleted by anyone.
> We should document this behavior and ways to work around it.
> In versions of hadoop (> 0.21 ) there is support for sticky bit
> (HADOOP-3953), which can be set to on warehouse directory to avoid this issue.
> With other versions of hadoop (1.0.x), the user should specify a location in
> the ddl statement for the database or table in default database that resides
> in a directory which has write access only for the owner/group.
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