https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/i-get-this-error-when-i-try-to-create-a-directory-on-hdfs/m-p/230271#M82561 <PRE>Permission denied: user=admin, access=WRITE, inode="/user/d":hdfs:hdfs:drwxr-xr-x</PRE> Fri, 16 Sep 2022 13:37:01 GMT yadir97_ya 2022-09-16T13:37:01Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/i-get-this-error-when-i-try-to-create-a-directory-on-hdfs/m-p/230271#M82561 <PRE>Permission denied: user=admin, access=WRITE, inode="/user/d":hdfs:hdfs:drwxr-xr-x</PRE> Fri, 16 Sep 2022 13:37:01 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/i-get-this-error-when-i-try-to-create-a-directory-on-hdfs/m-p/230271#M82561 yadir97_ya 2022-09-16T13:37:01Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/i-get-this-error-when-i-try-to-create-a-directory-on-hdfs/m-p/230272#M82562 <P> <A rel="user" href="https://community.cloudera.com/users/91394/yadir97ya.html" nodeid="91394">@yadir Aguilar</A></P><P>This is a permission issue. You need to give permissions on the folder to admin user or create directory as hdfs user</P><PRE>su hdfs hdfs dfs -mkdir /user/d</PRE><P>(or)</P><PRE>su hdfs hdfs dfs -chown admin:admin /user/d</PRE><P>.</P><P>If you are using a kerberized environment, you should do a kinit with hdfs keytab and then run the above commands</P><PRE>kinit -kt /etc/security/keytabs/hdfs.headless.keytab {user-principal}</PRE><P>.</P><P>Please "Accept" the answer if this helps.</P> Wed, 22 Aug 2018 23:21:24 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/i-get-this-error-when-i-try-to-create-a-directory-on-hdfs/m-p/230272#M82562 asirna 2018-08-22T23:21:24Z