[HADOOP-3536] Support permissions in fuse-dfs

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Craig Macdonald
• Created: 11/Jun/08 17:53
• Updated: 08/Jul/09 17:05
• Resolved: 08/Sep/08 03:53

Description

Currently permissions are unsupported by fuse-dfs.

This manifests itself as two issues:

• Users accessing a fuse-dfs mount do so as the user running fuse_dfs executable. In this case, it would be better to run fuse-dfr as some privileged user, and use Hadoop API calls determine whether the current user was privileged enough to perform the action.

• Users cannot view/change permissions on the mounted volume. See HADOOP-3264

Issue Links

• incorporates: HADOOP-3765 fuse-dfs should access hdfs as the client user
• incorporates: HADOOP-3766 fuse-dfs should allows permissions to be viewed/set
• is duplicated by: HADOOP-4106 add time, permission and user attribute support to fuse-dfs
• relates to: HADOOP-3764 libhdfs should allow connection to the DFS as a given user
• relates to: HADOOP-3264 libhdfs does not provide permissions in API
• relates to: HADOOP-3549 meaningful errno values in libhdfs