Hadoop Security – Hadoop HDFS File Permissions
Hadoop HDFS file permissions are almost similar to the POSIX file system. In a Linux system, we usually create OS level users and make them members of an existing operating system group. But in Hadoop, we create directory and associate it with an owner and a group. Hadoop HDFS File and Directory Permissions The following sections show Hadoop HDFS file and directory permissions: Just like Linux operating system, Hadoop uses notation (r,w) to denote read and write permissions. There is an execute (x) permission for files but you cannot execute…