[HIVE-23352] More user friendly StorageAuthorizationProvider log messages

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 4.0.0
• Component/s: Security
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Panagiotis Garefalakis
• Created: 01/May/20 15:21
• Updated: 03/May/20 12:21

Description

Currently StorageBasedAuthorizationProvider returns messages (like below) about data paths even for External tables where a drop command would just remove metadata. Lets make those messages more user-friendly.

Permission Denied: User hive can't delete hdfs://XXX.com:8020/tmp/testuser because sticky bit is set on the parent dir and user does not own this file or its parent)