@Sona, Sorry I missed your question in May. For (1), please refer to my previous update. For (2), yes all paths that store Hive databases/tables should be managed by Hive/Sentry, so those paths should be configured under Sentry Synchronization Path Prefixes setting and need to be owned by "hive:hive". The idea of Sentry is to have everything managed by "hive" so that no one can do direct modifications without going through Hive/Sentry. Cheers Eric ... View more