Check out this https://ccp.cloudera.com/display/CDHDOC/Hive+Security+Configuration
On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 12:17 AM, Patrick Luo <l...@trulia.com> wrote: > My use case requires individual accounts for business users groups. Is > there a way to mimic MySQL (or other database) to create users with > read-only permissions? This avoid business user accidental table drop. > Metastore has table ROLES but don’t see documentation on that. Much > appreciated if anyone can point to the documentation or share your thoughts > on this? > > - Patrick > > > -- ∞ Shashwat Shriparv