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Uma Maheswara Rao G updated HDFS-6556:
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Attachment: RefinedPermissions-HDFS-6556-1.patch
Attached the patch which fixes the TestXAttrWithSnapshot failure.
> Refine XAttr permissions
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> Key: HDFS-6556
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-6556
> Project: Hadoop HDFS
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: namenode
> Affects Versions: 2.5.0
> Reporter: Yi Liu
> Assignee: Uma Maheswara Rao G
> Attachments: RefinedPermissions-HDFS-6556-1.patch,
> RefinedPermissions-HDFS-6556.patch
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> After discuss with Uma, we should refine setting permissions of {{user}} and
> {{trusted}} namespace xattrs.
> *1.* For {{user}} namespace xattrs, In HDFS-6374, says "setXAttr should
> require the user to be the owner of the file or directory", we have a bit
> misunderstanding. It actually is:
> {quote}
> The access permissions for user attributes are defined by the file permission
> bits. only regular files and directories can have extended attributes. For
> sticky directories, only the owner and privileged user can write attributes.
> {quote}
> We can refer to linux source code in
> http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/fs/xattr.c?v=2.6.35
> I also check in linux, it's controlled by the file permission bits for
> regular files and directories (not sticky).
> *2.* For {{trusted}} namespace, currently we require the user should be owner
> and superuser. Actually superuser is enough.
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