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Yi Liu commented on HDFS-6374: ------------------------------ Thanks Charles, +1, looks good to me. > setXAttr should require the user to be the owner of the file or directory > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: HDFS-6374 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-6374 > Project: Hadoop HDFS > Issue Type: Sub-task > Components: namenode > Affects Versions: HDFS XAttrs (HDFS-2006) > Reporter: Andrew Wang > Assignee: Charles Lamb > Attachments: HDFS-6374.1.patch, HDFS-6374.2.patch, HDFS-6374.3.patch > > > From the attr(5) manpage: > {noformat} > For this reason, extended user attributes are only allowed for regular > files and directories, and access to extended user attributes is > restricted to the owner and to users with appropriate capabilities for > directories with the sticky bit set (see the chmod(1) manual page for > an explanation of Sticky Directories). > {noformat} -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.2#6252)