Ok I solved this The default setting hive.metastore.execute.setugi in Hive is FALSE Adding this to the hive-site.xml solved it
<property> <name>hive.metastore.execute.setugi</name> <value>true</value> <description>In unsecure mode, setting this property to true will cause the metastore to execute DFS operations using the client's reported user and group permissions. Note that this property must be set on both the client and server sides. Further note that its best effort. If client sets its to true and server sets it to false, client setting will be ignored.</description> </property> From: Sanjay Subramanian <sanjay.subraman...@wizecommerce.com<mailto:sanjay.subraman...@wizecommerce.com>> Reply-To: "user@hive.apache.org<mailto:user@hive.apache.org>" <user@hive.apache.org<mailto:user@hive.apache.org>> Date: Monday, March 25, 2013 7:01 PM To: "user@hive.apache.org<mailto:user@hive.apache.org>" <user@hive.apache.org<mailto:user@hive.apache.org>> Subject: HDFS directory in /user/hive/warehouse getting "hive" as Owner ? Steps to recreate the use case: - Log in as sasubramanian to Linux Box - Execute hive -e "CREATE TABLE name (id INT, name STRING);" - Go to HDFS /user/hive/warehouse/ Name Type Size Replication Block Size Modification Time Permission Owner Group name dir 2013-03-25 18:57 rwxr-xr-x hive supergroup I want the table top be created as Owner = sasubramanian How can I do that ? Thanks sanjay CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE ====================== This email message and any attachments are for the exclusive use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message along with any attachments, from your computer system. If you are the intended recipient, please be advised that the content of this message is subject to access, review and disclosure by the sender's Email System Administrator. CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE ====================== This email message and any attachments are for the exclusive use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message along with any attachments, from your computer system. If you are the intended recipient, please be advised that the content of this message is subject to access, review and disclosure by the sender's Email System Administrator.
