I have the same problem. I set the permission to 777 for all users. [nifi@hdp-srv2 ~]$ hdfs dfs -ls /warehouse/tablespace/managed/hive/ Found 3 items drwxrwxrwx+  - hive hadoop          0 2019-05-27 14:53 /warehouse/tablespace/managed/hive/information_schema.db drwxrwxrwx+  - hive hadoop          0 2019-05-28 13:45 /warehouse/tablespace/managed/hive/sensor_data drwxrwxrwx+  - hive hadoop          0 2019-05-27 14:53 /warehouse/tablespace/managed/hive/sys.db Error still happens. Caused by: org.apache.hadoop.hive.metastore.api.MetaException: java.security.AccessControlException: Permission denied: user=nifi, access=READ, inode="/warehouse/tablespace/managed/hive/sensor_data":hive:hadoop:drwxrwxrwx ... View more