question Re: How to create Home directory for Root in user Hortonwork sandbox 2.4 in Support Questions

How to create Home directory for Root in user Hortonwork sandbox 2.4

indrajeetswain — Mon, 19 Aug 2019 11:41:31 GMT

aervits — Thu, 21 Apr 2016 01:22:45 GMT

sudo -u hdfs hdfs dfs -mkdir /user/root

sudo -u hdfs hdfs dfs -chown -R root:hdfs /user/root

aervits — Thu, 21 Apr 2016 01:23:33 GMT

You have to ssh to the machine using terminal. There is no hdfs user in Ambari that can create directory as superuser.

indrajeetswain — Thu, 21 Apr 2016 01:23:42 GMT

Thanks ..

sudo su - hdfs

hdfs dfs -mkdir /user/root

hdfs dfs -chown root:hdfs /user/root

got the answer as well from another thread