@justin3113 to run jobs across all nodes a user must exist on each node, I'd justin3113 for example. And each user needs a HDFS user directory under /user in HDFS, the user must have read and write access. This is so the job can write temporary data to HDFS from whatever node the job is running. The error is stating that it is trying to create that user directory but only the hdfs user has that permission. Opening up access gets around it but that is not advisable. You should run for each user su - hdfs hdfs dfs -mkdir /user/justin3113. ... View more