https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/permission-denied-while-using-distcp/m-p/80363#M34444 <P>I've<SPAN>&nbsp;</SPAN>followed you by adding a new user to super group and gave permissions using ACLs<BR /><BR /></P><P>The<SPAN>&nbsp;</SPAN>user name<SPAN>&nbsp;</SPAN>is 'perl'</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>I ran a new job&nbsp;</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>$ sudo&nbsp;-u perl&nbsp;hadoop&nbsp;distcp&nbsp;/solomon/data/data.txt /solomon</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>When I run this job the application was in pending status</P> Thu, 27 Sep 2018 09:19:20 GMT saikrishnamante 2018-09-27T09:19:20Z