[HIVE-14238] Ownership shouldn't be checked if external table location doesn't exist

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Assignee: Rui Li
• Reporter: Rui Li
• Created: 14/Jul/16 09:19
• Updated: 15/Jul/16 01:54
• Resolved: 15/Jul/16 01:32

Description

When creating external table with SQL authorization, we require RWX permission + ownership of the table location. If the location doesn't exist, we check on parent dir (recursively), which means we require the user owns everything under parent dir. I think this is not necessary - we don't have to check ownership of parent dir, or we just check non-recursively.

Issue Links

• duplicates: HIVE-10022 Authorization checks for non existent file/directory should not be recursive