https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Is-there-a-way-to-change-a-folder-owner-from-Ambari/m-p/125915#M34545 <P><A rel="user" href="https://community.cloudera.com/users/3691/bandalora.html" nodeid="3691">@Beverley Andalora</A> </P><P> Not possible from Ambari File View, but you can use linux command to change it</P><PRE> hdfs dfs -chown [-R] [OWNER][:[GROUP]] PATH...</PRE><P> Example:</P><PRE> hdfs dfs -chown falcon /path/filename</PRE> Wed, 13 Jul 2016 04:40:09 GMT falbani 2016-07-13T04:40:09Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Is-there-a-way-to-change-a-folder-owner-from-Ambari/m-p/125914#M34544 <P>I created a folder in Ambari with owner "admin", but it should be "falcon". Is there a way to change it?</P> Wed, 13 Jul 2016 04:32:04 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Is-there-a-way-to-change-a-folder-owner-from-Ambari/m-p/125914#M34544 bandalora 2016-07-13T04:32:04Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Is-there-a-way-to-change-a-folder-owner-from-Ambari/m-p/125915#M34545 <P><A rel="user" href="https://community.cloudera.com/users/3691/bandalora.html" nodeid="3691">@Beverley Andalora</A> </P><P> Not possible from Ambari File View, but you can use linux command to change it</P><PRE> hdfs dfs -chown [-R] [OWNER][:[GROUP]] PATH...</PRE><P> Example:</P><PRE> hdfs dfs -chown falcon /path/filename</PRE> Wed, 13 Jul 2016 04:40:09 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/Is-there-a-way-to-change-a-folder-owner-from-Ambari/m-p/125915#M34545 falbani 2016-07-13T04:40:09Z