Ranger authorization for HDFS - Unable to change ownership of a directory in hdfs

[#1]

I have configured once policy for hdfs via ranger. below are the details:

1. Policy configured for user admin

2. User admin can rwx into /user/oozie

3. Point number 2 tested successfully

4. When I went to change ownership of /user/oozie to admin by user admin then it fails with below error

[admin@hdpambari ~]$ hdfs dfs -chown root /user/oozie/test1
chown: changing ownership of '/user/oozie/test1': Non-super user cannot change owner

I know that logically this is correct as user "admin" has rwx access to /user/oozie so no need to change the ownership.

Is my understanding correct ? is there any documentation that points to this ?

[#2]

I do have access to hdfs user and yes we can change the ownership using

sudo -u hdfs hadoop fs -chown <some-user> /user/oozie/test1

I just wanted to ensure that if this is expected behavior that even after granting rwx via Ranger authorization we cannot change the ownership.

[#3]

Yes, this is the expected behavior. Ranger Policies are just for the ACL and not for ownership. The right way to do out here is to use Ranger for all the ACLs. You should you want root to access /user/oozie/test1, then from Ranger Admin, you should give "root" the required access to the folder. Ideally, you shouldn't play with owner and group.

[#4]

@bdurai - Thats correct! Thank you.

[#5]

@Kuldeep Kulkarni has this been resolved? Please accept best answer or provide your own solution.

[#6]

Based on all the discussion, this is expected behavior. Even after giving full permissions via ranger, only superuser can modify ownership.