Permission denied when removing file from HDFS from sandbox

[#1]

Hi all,

Default Hortonworks Sandbox 2.3.2 running in VirtualBox on Mac El Capitan. I noticed when using the HDFS file manager GUI (at http://sandbox.hortonworks.com:8080/#/main/views/... ), any directories or files created are owned by "admin". Then, if I create directories or files by connecting to HDFS from the hadoop 2.7.1 command line client, they're owned by "matthew" (my Mac account name):

$ bin/hadoop fs -ls hdfs://sandbox.hortonworks.com:8020/tmp/bar15/12/18 10:25:33
WARN util.NativeCodeLoader: Unable to load native-hadoop library for your platform... using builtin-java classes where applicable
Found 2 items
-rw-r--r--   3 matthew hdfs  116795988 2015-12-17 17:17 hdfs://sandbox.hortonworks.com:8020/tmp/bar/sh111.txt
-rw-r--r--   3 matthew hdfs   19465998 2015-12-17 17:13 hdfs://sandbox.hortonworks.com:8020/tmp/bar/sh19mb.txt

After creating those files, I can't delete them using the HDFS file manager GUI -- there is no delete (trash can) icon for the files owned by "matthew".

I then tried to delete them via hadoop 2.7.1 with command

bin/hadoop fs -rm -r -f hdfs://sandbox.hortonworks.com:8020/tmp/bar

and I get an exception that starts with

org.apache.hadoop.security.AccessControlException: Permission denied: user=matthew, access=WRITE, inode="/user/matthew/.Trash/Current/tmp":hdfs:hdfs:drwxr-xr-x

I tried to ls /user/matthew with command

bin/hadoop fs -ls hdfs://sandbox.hortonworks.com:8020/user/matthew

and got

ls: `hdfs://sandbox.hortonworks.com:8020/user/matthew': No such file or directory

How do I remove files created via the hadoop command line client in the Hortonworks Sandbox 2.3.2?

TIA,

Matthew

[#2 · Accepted solution]

@Matthew Adams

su - hdfs

hdfs dfs -chown -R matthew:hadoop /user/matthew

then try deleting it

[#3]

My mac has no user "hdfs".

$ su - hdfs
Password:
su: Sorry

Am I supposed to ssh into the sandbox and execute these commands?

Further, there is no directory found called "/user/matthew" as I indicated in my original question, so if I'd be chown'ing something that doesn't exist.

I'm confused...

[#4]

Yes , please login into sandbox

http://127.0.0.1:4200 or you can do ssh from mac

HW11326:Downloads nsabharwal$ ssh root@127.0.0.1 -p 2222

root@127.0.0.1's password:

Last login: Thu Dec 17 23:34:06 2015 from 10.0.2.2

[root@sandbox ~]# su - hdfs

[hdfs@sandbox ~]$

[#5]

@Neeraj Sabharwal, that did the trick. Thanks!

[#6]

@Matthew Adams hdfs is life root user 😉 superuser

If this thread is resolved then please accept one of the answers...Thanks for testing

[#7]

hdfs dfs -mkdir /user/admin/matthew might be required.