ranger-screenshot.pngI am using the default policy for HDFS provided after ranger installation. IT is not working as expected. this is my hdfs permission . Attached is the screeshot of ranger policy. now if an user arun is trying to access hdfs, he shouldnt be as only hadoop,rangerlookupuser and ambari-qa have the permissions as per the policy. Am i doing anything wrong. Or how do i restrict an user named arun using ranger. any thoughts would be grear hadoop fs -ls / Found 9 items drwxrwxrwx - yarn hadoop 0 2017-03-14 05:48 /app-logs drwxr-xr-x - hdfs hdfs 0 2017-03-14 05:45 /apps drwxr-xr-x - yarn hadoop 0 2017-03-14 05:45 /ats drwxr-xr-x - hdfs hdfs 0 2017-03-14 05:46 /hdp drwxr-xr-x - mapred hdfs 0 2017-03-14 05:46 /mapred drwxrwxrwx - mapred hadoop 0 2017-03-14 05:46 /mr-history drwxr-xr-x - hdfs hdfs 0 2017-03-28 07:39 /ranger drwxrwxrwx - hdfs hdfs 0 2017-03-28 04:54 /tmp drwxr-xr-x - hdfs hdfs 0 2017-03-28 09:54 /user ... View more

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