Apache Falcon doesn't think I'm logged in as root

[#1]

I'm trying to create a cluster in Falcon, but I get an error saying that the current user "Falcon" is not the owner of the path. I am logged in as root, but it never asked me for a password. Here's the error:

https://imgur.com/t4XorQv

Any suggestions?

[#2]

@Vaughn Shideler,

Please check if permissions on the cluster staging directory are set to 777

Ref: https://docs.hortonworks.com/HDPDocuments/HDP2/HDP-2.6.1/bk_data-movement-and-integration/content/ch...

[#3]

Hello @Samrat Kompella,

I tried this and still encounter the same problem:

[root@sandbox-hdp ~]# hdfs dfs -chmod -R 777 /apps/falcon/SourceCluster/staging

[root@sandbox-hdp ~]# hdfs dfs -ls -d /apps/falcon/SourceCluster/staging drwxrwxrwx - root hdfs 0 2018-05-10 03:41 /apps/falcon/SourceCluster/staging

[#4]

@Vaughn Shideler

As hdfs user could you try this

$ hdfs dfs -chown -R  falcon /apps/falcon/SourceCluster/staging

Check the permissions

$ hdfs dfs -ls /apps/falcon/SourceCluster

You should have falcon:hdfs

Then retry that should work

[#5]

Thank you for your reply @Geoffrey Shelton Okot

Unfortunately, the same error still occurs when trying to create a cluster.

I also restarted the Falcon service, just to be safe.

On the summary page, it says the following:

Access Control List

Owner: root Group: users Permission: 0x755

I'm not sure if that helps. Also, the readout for -ls is as follows:

[hdfs@sandbox-hdp root]$ hdfs dfs -ls /apps/falcon/SourceCluster
Found 2 items
drwxrwxrwx - falcon hdfs 0 2018-05-10 03:41 /apps/falcon/SourceCluster/staging
drwxrwxrwx - root hdfs 0 2018-05-10 03:41 /apps/falcon/SourceCluster/working

Any further suggestions would be appreciated.

[#6]

@Vaughn Shideler

Please try keeping permissions on the working directory set to 755 (rwx/r-w/r-w)

[#7]

Thank you @Samrat Kompella

The error I get now is the following:

https://imgur.com/5j9Der4

I'm not sure if it wants it back to 777 or not.

[#8]

Only Working dir should be 755 and staging should be kept 777

[#9 · Accepted solution]

@Vaughn Shideler

I don't see why you are logged in as root , usually ambari-qa or Admin

I see you should have set it a directory higher, the offending directory permission is on SourceCluster

# hdfs dfs -ls -d /apps/falcon/SourceCluster/staging 
drwxrwxrwx - root hdfs 0 2018-05-10 03:41 /apps/falcon/SourceCluster/staging

So as hdfs user run the below snippet

$ hdfs dfs -chown -R falcon /apps/falcon

Then proceed as below

I have just tried out on my Single node cluster HDP-2.6.2.0 falcon 0.10.0

The Falcon UI will accept Admin, hive or Falcon and NOT prompt for the password so you can log out and log in as admin or falcon.

It's important the user has a home under /apps/* so in your case, you can use falcon form the above sequence. Below is the my output.

$ hdfs dfs -ls /apps
Found 4 items
drwxrwxrwx   - falcon   hdfs          0 2018-05-04 17:48 /apps/falcon
drwxr-xr-x   - hdfs     hdfs          0 2017-10-19 13:43 /apps/hbase
drwxr-xr-x   - hdfs     hdfs          0 2017-10-19 13:53 /apps/hive
drwxr-xr-x   - zeppelin hdfs          0 2017-10-19 19:25 /apps/zeppelin

See attached screenshot.

Please revert

[#10]

That seems to have taken care of it, I can now create a cluster. The /staging directory needs to have permissions of 777 whereas I think the parent folder needs to be 755.

Thanks all for your assistance!