https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/yarn-can-read-write-to-hdfs-but-cannot-execute-file-on-hdfs/m-p/233671#M195494 <P><A href="https://community.hortonworks.com/users/70239/jinyuli.html">Jinyu Li</A> can you please try reading this file through direct hdfs call, hdfs dfs -cat , in this case it will use READ_EXECUTE, </P><P>try this call first through yarn user and then hive user, and check if it works for both of them </P> Wed, 07 Mar 2018 16:46:15 GMT dsharma 2018-03-07T16:46:15Z