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  1. Hadoop HDFS
  2. HDFS-6741

Improve permission denied message when FSPermissionChecker#checkOwner fails

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    • Improvement
    • Status: Closed
    • Trivial
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • 2.5.0, 3.0.0-alpha1
    • 2.7.0
    • None
    • Reviewed

    Description

      Currently, FSPermissionChecker#checkOwner throws an AccessControlException with a simple "Permission denied" message.

      When users try to set an ACL without ownership permissions, they'll see something like:

      [schu@hdfs-vanilla-1 hadoop]$ hdfs dfs -setfacl -m user:schu:--- /tmp
      setfacl: Permission denied
      

      It'd be helpful if the message had an explanation why the permission was denied to avoid confusion for users who aren't familiar with permissions.

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        1. HDFS-6741.1.patch
          0.9 kB
          Stephen Chu
        2. HDFS-6741.2.patch
          5 kB
          Stephen Chu
        3. HDFS-6741.2.patch
          5 kB
          Stephen Chu

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