[HIVE-1476] Hive's metastore when run as a thrift service creates directories as the service user instead of the real user issuing create table/alter table etc.

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 0.6.0, 0.7.0
• Component/s: Metastore, Security
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Pradeep Kamath
• Created: 21/Jul/10 19:26
• Updated: 04/Apr/11 19:19

Description

If the thrift metastore service is running as the user "hive" then all table directories as a result of create table are created as that user rather than the user who actually issued the create table command. This is different semantically from non-thrift mode (i.e. local mode) when clients directly connect to the metastore. In the latter case, directories are created as the real user. The thrift mode should do the same.

Issue Links

• relates to: HIVE-1588 Allowing Hive's metastore when it runs as a thrift service to run as a pure metadata service and not perform any filesystem operations