[HIVE-3756] "LOAD DATA" does not honor permission inheritence

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.9.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.12.0
• Component/s: Authorization, Security
• Assignee: Chaoyu Tang
• Reporter: Johndee Burks
• Created: 29/Nov/12 18:11
• Updated: 11/Apr/14 00:13
• Resolved: 26/Jul/13 04:39

Description

When a "LOAD DATA" operation is performed the resulting data in hdfs for the table does not maintain permission inheritance. This remains true even with the "hive.warehouse.subdir.inherit.perms" set to true.

The issue is easily reproducible by creating a table and loading some data into it. After the load is complete just do a "dfs -ls -R" on the warehouse directory and you will see that the inheritance of permissions worked for the table directory but not for the data.

Issue Links

• breaks: HIVE-6209 'LOAD DATA INPATH ... OVERWRITE ..' doesn't overwrite current data
• is duplicated by: HIVE-3094 new partition files and directories should inherit file permissions from parent partition/table dir
• is part of: HIVE-6892 Permission inheritance issues
• is related to: HIVE-3094 new partition files and directories should inherit file permissions from parent partition/table dir