https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/how-to-access-user-hue-directory-using-putty/m-p/145584#M108152 <A rel="user" href="https://community.cloudera.com/users/9696/arunmani333.html" nodeid="9696">@manikandan ayyasamy</A><P>/user/hue directory is on HDFS not on local file system, that's the reason you are not able to directly 'cd' to it.</P><P>Please try below command(as hue or hdfs user)</P><PRE>hadoop fs -ls /user/hue</PRE> Wed, 25 Jan 2017 16:44:39 GMT KuldeepK 2017-01-25T16:44:39Z