safemode: Access denied for user cloudera. Superuser privilege is required.

[#1]

I am using the cloudera VM and geting below error when run the below command from terminal.

[cloudera@localhost ~]$ hdfs dfsadmin -safemode leave
safemode: Access denied for user cloudera. Superuser privilege is required

Quick help will appreciate.

[#2 · Accepted solution]

That command must be run as the HDFS superuser (usually "hdfs").  So, try it this way:

sudo -u hdfs hdfs dfsadmin -safemode leave

HTH

[#3]

this worked for me.

thanks,

raj

[#4]

Thanks Clint !!

[#5]

Thanks. This works for me as well. 🙂 

[#6]

thanks sir

[#7]

I am having this issue.

Tried with the command you have given however there is one more error which says -

Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM warning: Insufficient space for shared memory file:
<some value>
Try using the -Djava.io.tmpdir= option to select an alternate temp location.

i am not sure about setting this Djava.io.tmpdir, can you please help ? 

[#8]

sudo -u hdfs hdfs dfsadmin -safemode leave

[#9]

yes.i have this issue how to solve it