Permission denied: user=ABC, access=WRITE, inode="/user":hdfs:supergroup:drwxr-xr-x

[#1]

Hello,

when I try to run a sqoop import command I am getting the following error:

Caused by: org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RemoteException(org.apache.hadoop.security.AccessControlException): 
Permission denied: user=butmah, access=WRITE, inode="/user":hdfs:supergroup:drwxr-xr-x

how to solve this ?

tthanks

[#2]

Can you fire the below command
sudo -u hdfs hadoop fs -mkdir /user/butmah
sudo -u hdfs hadoop fs -chown butmah /user/butmah

[#3]

This works thanks alot

[#4]

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[#5]

The rational behind the permission denied ERROR
The /user/ directory is owned by "hdfs" with 755 permissions. As a result only hdfs can write to that directory.