Hive is throwing permission error while creating table/database

Question

I am getting permission error in hive.

I am using IBM cloud - my.imdemocloud.com

hive> create table a(key INT); FAILED: Error in metadata: MetaException(message:Got exception: org.apache.hadoop.security.AccessControlException org.apache.hadoop.security.AccessControlException: Permission denied: user=nehpraka, access=WRITE, inode="warehouse":biadmin:biadmin:rwxrwxr-x) FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask

Where as I have given all the roles to m user.

hive> SHOW GRANT USER nehpraka on DATABASE default; OK

database default principalName nehpraka principalType USER privilege Create grantTime Wed Apr 16 14:17:51 EDT 2014 grantor nehpraka Time taken: 0.051 seconds

Please help me out in this.

Thanks & Ragards

Answer 1

I got the solution.

I was using IBM Big Insight cloud, on this we can create a database in this manner.

create database DataBaseName location 'hdfs://master-1-internal.imdemocloud.com:9000/user/<user_name>';

Thanks all for helping me.

Answer 2

This looks like a HDFS folder write permission issue.

Have you tried with hdfs user? Basically check the warehouse of hive on HDFS and that folder should have RW permission for your user.

Answer 3

if you are using Cloudera version of hadoop and hive then try to open hive using below command :

sudo hive

if it asks for password then enter cloudera. In cloudera version, only super user have permission to hive write permissions on hdfs. This will help you.