I tried to follow the tutorial on the tag based policy in Atlas, but can't seem to make it work. Actually the tutorial itself seems to be misleading with the tag based policy. In part 4, although it looks like the access is granted through the tag based policy by excluding admin user in deny access, it is not. Even I disable that tag based policy in Ranger, the access for admin user is still there. It is because the original 2 resource based policies are enabled which grant admin user all access. So with or without the tag based policy, the admin use always has access to the hive table. I also tried is to modify the tag based policy in the tutorial so it blocks access for admin user by put the following in the deny conditions. And admin use still has access Select Group – none Select User – admin Component Permission – Hive – Select You can select the component permission through this popup: All resourced based policy worked as expected and the problem only exist with tag related policy. After some digging in Ranger audit, it seems that when tag related policy is created/changed, they were not synced to plug in, not sure if that is the reason behind the failure You can see the sync only happened with resource based policies ... View more