This is because 'guest' user in the Demo Ldap does not belong to group "users". For this to work you should create a group "users" in the demo ldap (users.ldif) and add guest user to it. You could try to impersonate 'guest' to a user who belongs to 'users' group on the machine. ... View more

@Neha G You can use the basic hdfs commands to achieve this. hdfs dfs -copyFromLocal <local file system path> <hdfs path> - to copy files from local to hdfs hdfs dfs -copyToLocal <hdfs path> <local fs path> - copy from hdfs to local hdfs dfs -put <local file system path> <hdfs path> - to copy files from local to hdfs hdfs dfs -get <hdfs path> <local fs path> - copy from hdfs to local hdfs dfs -ls <path> - list the files. Check this link for more commands. https://hadoop.apache.org/docs/current/hadoop-project-dist/hadoop-common/FileSystemShell.html Make sure to run kinit with hdfs keytab before running the above commands as it is a secure enviroment ( kinit -kt /etc/security/keytabs/hdfs.headless.keytab <principal>) If you don't know the value of principal , you can run the below command and get it [root@xxxxx ~]# klist -kte /etc/security/keytabs/hdfs.headless.keytab Keytab name: FILE:/etc/security/keytabs/hdfs.headless.keytab KVNO Timestamp Principal ---- ----------------- -------------------------------------------------------- 1 09/10/17 14:06:14 hdfs@EXAMPLE.COM (aes128-cts-hmac-sha1-96) 1 09/10/17 14:06:14 hdfs@EXAMPLE.COM (arcfour-hmac) 1 09/10/17 14:06:14 hdfs@EXAMPLE.COM (des-cbc-md5) 1 09/10/17 14:06:14 hdfs@EXAMPLE.COM (des3-cbc-sha1) 1 09/10/17 14:06:14 hdfs@EXAMPLE.COM (aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96) In the above output hdfs@EXAMPLE.COM is the principal, so your kinit command would be kinit -kt /etc/security/keytabs/hdfs.headless.keytab hdfs@EXAMPLE.COM Note : You can also use ambari files view to do these operations. GUI would be easy. Thanks, Aditya ... View more