question Hi I was testing HDFS ACL and I am not able to find the property "dfs.namenode.acls.enabled" to enable or disable acl on HWX version "HDP-2.2.4.2-2" so I added the property in Custom hdfs-site but its not working. in Archives of Support Questions (Read Only)

Hi I was testing HDFS ACL and I am not able to find the property "dfs.namenode.acls.enabled" to enable or disable acl on HWX version "HDP-2.2.4.2-2" so I added the property in Custom hdfs-site but its not working.

manoj_aladakatt — Thu, 28 Jan 2016 20:23:59 GMT

Re: Hi I was testing HDFS ACL and I am not able to find the property "dfs.namenode.acls.enabled" to enable or disable acl on HWX version "HDP-2.2.4.2-2" so I added the property in Custom hdfs-site but its not working.

nsabharwal — Thu, 28 Jan 2016 20:26:49 GMT

@Manoj A

You should look into installing Ranger.

http://docs.hortonworks.com/HDPDocuments/HDP2/HDP-2.3.4/bk_Ranger_User_Guide/content/hdfs_policy.html

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Re: Hi I was testing HDFS ACL and I am not able to find the property "dfs.namenode.acls.enabled" to enable or disable acl on HWX version "HDP-2.2.4.2-2" so I added the property in Custom hdfs-site but its not working.

bleonhardi — Thu, 28 Jan 2016 22:33:51 GMT

It should work even without Ranger. Are you sure you restarted HDFS and did everything correctly? You have to add it to the custom properties as you did. I used it recently in the certification and it worked for me.

http://hortonworks.com/blog/hdfs-acls-fine-grained-permissions-hdfs-files-hadoop/