Background: when it comes to rely completely on ranger, and if you are specific about configuring authorization for a resource to an end user then you have to create one policy for each resource. There should be a way to configure a policy that provide access to specific resources based on the User who is making call. Soultion: {USER} Support: {USER} support solves this problem , It allows us to create a policy where we can configure resource as {USER} Eg. /user/{USER} and select user also as {USER}. that means all users will get access of their corresponding home directory. Eg. Hdfs: resource: /user/{USER} user1 will have access to /user/user1 user2 will have access to /user/user2 Hive: resource: database:database_{USER} user1 will have access to database database_user1 user2 will have access to database database_user2 resource may contrain {USER} partially or fully. delimiter can be customised also , Steps to configure {USER}: 1) go to ranger admin, and create policy page, there on resource give {USER} as input. 2) in user type {USER} and {USER} will populate , just select it and add the policy more details can be found at https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/RANGER/Support+for+%24username+variable. ... View more