https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Support-Questions/Users-under-default-quot-supergroup-quot/m-p/77407#M41046 <P><a href="https://community.cloudera.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/27861">@Prav</a>,</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>When directories or files show group as "supergroup" that means that noone except superusers would have access via group permission.&nbsp; It is merely a convention.&nbsp; If there is no OS group named supergroup (or LDAP if you are using LDAP groups mapping) then only the "hdfs" user has access.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>In short, there is no group named "supergroup" by default.&nbsp; If you are a superuser, you would have access to the file/directory anyway since permissions would not apply to a superuser.</P><P>&nbsp;</P> Tue, 24 Jul 2018 18:41:37 GMT bgooley 2018-07-24T18:41:37Z