Is separate metastores and separate hive servers the only way to go here? Or can we segment tables into databases and then use hive authorization.
Thanks, Ranjith On May 18, 2012, at 11:08 PM, "Bejoy KS" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi patrick > The Authorization mechanisms in hive are not as solid as other RDBMS. A user > can grant himself rights and can then drop a table or do whatever operations > he likes to do. There is no super user(admin) and sub user concept in hive > yet, but the community is having plans to implement that in future with > strong Authorization mechanisms. > Saying this if the business users are guaranteed not to play with GRANT > statements or rather not change permissions themselves, (But it is hard to > guarantee this when the no of users are large :) ) hive can satisfy your > requirement. > Regards > Bejoy KS > > Sent from handheld, please excuse typos. > From: "Raghunath, Ranjith" <[email protected]> > Date: Sat, 19 May 2012 00:54:36 +0000 > To: [email protected]<[email protected]> > ReplyTo: [email protected] > Subject: RE: Is there a way to create user account and grant read only > permissions? > > Take a look at this, https://cwiki.apache.org/Hive/languagemanual-auth.html. > This may be what you are looking for . > > From: shashwat shriparv [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, May 18, 2012 3:08 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Is there a way to create user account and grant read only > permissions? > > Check out this > > https://ccp.cloudera.com/display/CDHDOC/Hive+Security+Configuration > > On Sat, May 19, 2012 at 12:17 AM, Patrick Luo <[email protected]> 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 > >
