[HIVE-6602] Multi-user HiveServer2 throws error

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.13.0
• Fix Version/s: 0.14.0
• Component/s: HiveServer2
• Assignee: Vaibhav Gumashta
• Reporter: Vaibhav Gumashta
• Created: 10/Mar/14 12:34
• Updated: 13/Nov/14 19:44
• Resolved: 11/Mar/14 13:43

Description

Error thrown:
Error while processing statement: FAILED: RuntimeException org.apache.hadoop.security.AccessControlException: Permission denied: user=user_1, access=WRITE, inode="/tmp/hive-hive":hdfs:drwxr-xr-x

For hive query execution, a scratch directory specified by hive.exec.scratchdir is created with default permission 700. In HiveServer2, during the CLIService startup, we check for the presence of scratch directories (local + dfs) and if they don't exist, create them with permission 777. However, we should also change the permission from the default 700 to 777 in case the dfs scratch directory already exists.

Issue Links

• is related to: HIVE-6847 Improve / fix bugs in Hive scratch dir setup