[RANGER-2185] Hive Plugin show databases permission denied when user has access to some of the databases

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.0.0
• Component/s: plugins
• Labels: security
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: dhomme
• Created: 09/Aug/18 12:37
• Updated: 27/May/19 07:04

Description

Add a  resource based policy to allow a user, hive, has access to the default database. Then execute 'show databases;' via beeline, the user should see 'default'. Instead following error is shown:

Error: Error while compiling statement: FAILED: HiveAccessControlException Permission denied: user [hive] does not have [USE] privilege on [*] (state=42000,code=40000)

Issue Links

• Blocked: RANGER-2329 [Hive Plugin] show databases denied although user has access to some databases