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Thejas Nair commented on HIVE-23339:
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Yes, its fine to change this API. It is not widely used outside of Hive AFAIK.
Ranger and others use a different HiveAuthorizer interface.
> SBA does not check permissions for DB location specified in Create database
> query
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>
> Key: HIVE-23339
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-23339
> Project: Hive
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: Hive
> Affects Versions: 3.1.0
> Reporter: Riju Trivedi
> Assignee: Shubham Chaurasia
> Priority: Critical
> Labels: pull-request-available
> Attachments: HIVE-23339.01.patch
>
> Time Spent: 10m
> Remaining Estimate: 0h
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> With doAs=true and StorageBasedAuthorization provider, create database with
> specific location succeeds even if user doesn't have access to that path.
>
> {code:java}
> hadoop fs -ls -d /tmp/cannot_write
> drwx------ - hive hadoop 0 2020-04-01 22:53 /tmp/cannot_write
> create a database under /tmp/cannot_write. We would expect it to fail, but is
> actually created successfully with "hive" as the owner:
> rtrivedi@bdp01:~> beeline -e "create database rtrivedi_1 location
> '/tmp/cannot_write/rtrivedi_1'"
> INFO : OK
> No rows affected (0.116 seconds)
> hive@hpchdd2e:~> hadoop fs -ls /tmp/cannot_write
> Found 1 items
> drwx------ - hive hadoop 0 2020-04-01 23:05 /tmp/cannot_write/rtrivedi_1
> {code}
>
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