Hi John,
Have you tried set this myhdfsgroup group in
dfs.permissions.superusergroup property? If you set this property in
your hdfs-site.xml file, this group will be a super user group, and
should have full permissions in any HDFS place.
Ex:
<property>
<name>dfs.permissions.superusergroup</name>
<value>myhdfsgroup</value>
</property>
Regards,
Wellington.
2012/8/9 Justin Woody <justin.wo...@gmail.com>:
> John,
>
> Hadoop group permissions follow the BSD model, which is outlined in
> the documentation. I think your settings are correct on that
> directory, but you may want to check the higher level directories as
> well (/path, /path/to, etc).
>
> Hope that helps.
> Justin
>
> On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 7:55 AM, John Armstrong <j...@ccri.com> wrote:
>> I'm having some trouble with permissions on HDFS. I'm trying to create a
>> file in a directory where the user belongs to a group that has write
>> permissions, but it doesn't seem to be working.
>>
>> First, the directory:
>>
>> myuser$ hadoop fs -ls /path/to/parent/
>> drwxrwxr-x - hdfs myhdfsgroup 0 2012-08-09 07:34
>> /path/to/parent/directory
>>
>> so mygroup has all permissions on /path/to/parent/directory. Next I check:
>>
>> myuser$ groups
>> myuser [...] myhdfsgroup
>>
>> so myuser is a member of myhdfsgroup. I should be able to put a file into
>> this directory, no?
>>
>> myuser$ hadoop fs -put testFile.txt /path/to/parent/directory/testfile.txt
>> put: org.apache.hadoop.security.AccessControlException: Permission denied:
>> user=myuser, access=WRITE, inode="directory":hdfs:myhdfsgroup:rwxrwxr-x
>>
>> I don't even see a mention of the group in this exception message. Do group
>> permissions just not work? And if not, why are they included in the
>> documentation?
>>
>> In case it matters, I'm using Hadoop 0.20.2 plus some patches.
>>
>> tia
