https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/How-to-run-Oozie-workfllow-or-action-as-another-user/m-p/27545#M39262 Shell actions are not allowed to run as another user as sudo is blocked. If you want a yarn application to run as someone other than yarn (i.e. the submitter), then you'd want to run in a secured environment so that the containers are started up by the submitting user. See Shell Action Caveats here:<BR /><BR /><A target="_blank" href="http://blog.cloudera.com/blog/2013/03/how-to-use-oozie-shell-and-java-actions/">http://blog.cloudera.com/blog/2013/03/how-to-use-oozie-shell-and-java-actions/</A><BR /><BR />Hope this helps Fri, 15 May 2015 19:39:23 GMT dcote 2015-05-15T19:39:23Z