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How to change owner in Hdfs using Nifi tool?

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  • How to change owner name as admin instead of Administrator while put file into Hdfs directory using NiFi
  • i have received some json files it stored group name as administrator. i'm not able to use those file it shows some access problems because i have only admin not administrator
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@Manikandan Durairaj

Within the PutHDFS processor, you can set the HDFS owner/group using the 'Remote Owner' and 'Remote Group' properties:

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Note, this will only work if NiFi is running as a user that has HDFS super-user privilege to change owner/group.

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Rising Star

@Manikandan Durairaj

Within the PutHDFS processor, you can set the HDFS owner/group using the 'Remote Owner' and 'Remote Group' properties:

5485-nifi-flow.png

Note, this will only work if NiFi is running as a user that has HDFS super-user privilege to change owner/group.

Explorer

Hi,

how to set user in nifi 0.7,since in NiFi 0.7 UI we can able to see the user popup box but not the user add button

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