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Error in accessing command line interface from hortonworks cluster

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I am trying ti access the command line interface from server where I have hortonworks install but I am getting below error.Can I not access the command line?

[root@ip-xxx-xx-xx ec2-user]# hive WARNING: Use "yarn jar" to launch YARN applications. Logging initialized using configuration in file:/etc/hive/2.3.4.0-3485/0/hive-log4j.properties Exception in thread "main" java.lang.RuntimeException: org.apache.hadoop.security.AccessControlException: Permission denied: user=root, access=WRITE, inode="/user/root":hdfs:hdfs:drwxr-xr-x

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@Amit Sharma

The user you are trying to access the directory with is root and it does not have permission. Either provide root access to /user/root/ or change to user hdfs via su - hdfs. Current /user/root/ is owned by hdfs according to your log.

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Master Mentor
sudo -u hdfs hdfs dfs -mkdir /user/root
sudo -u hdfs hdfs dfs -chown -R root:hdfs /user/root

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New Member

@Artem Ervits I was facing the same issue. This solution worked for me. Thank you!

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@Amit Sharma

The user you are trying to access the directory with is root and it does not have permission. Either provide root access to /user/root/ or change to user hdfs via su - hdfs. Current /user/root/ is owned by hdfs according to your log.