[SENTRY-1311] Improve usability of URI privileges by supporting mixed use of URIs with and without scheme

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.6.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.8.0
• Component/s: URI
• Assignee: VS
• Reporter: Vadim Spector
• Created: 03/Jun/16 00:29
• Updated: 07/Jul/16 23:57
• Resolved: 23/Jun/16 19:10

Description

If URI has scheme when granting URI privileges, e.g. "grant all on uri 'hdfs:///path/to/table' to role <user-role>", subsequent table creation using URI without scheme "create external table tab1 (s string) location '/path/to/table'" fails with org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.metadata.AuthorizationException: User <user-name> does not have privileges for CREATETABLE