In ranger, I have already gave the select permission of certain hive table, and read, execute permission on hdfs path of the table. To make a example: set read, execute permission on path /apps/hive/warehouse/testdb.db/table1 to account set select permission on hive table 'table1' on all columns to account   When I do the command: "show tables in testdb.db;" or "desc testdb.table1" I get the Error from hive client: Error: Error while compiling statement: FAILED: SemanticException [Error 10072]: Database does not exist: dwd (state=42000,code=10072)     When I check the 'hivemetastore.log', it shows the query requires the read permission on path '/apps/hive/warehouse/testdb.db'   org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RemoteException(org.apache.ranger.authorization.hadoop.exceptions.RangerAccessControlException): Permission denied: user=xxx, access=READ, inode="/apps/hive/warehouse/testdb.db"   The problem is, I only want to grant the permission of the table to this account. From my experience I don't need such database path permission to use 'desc' command on the table. What could be the problem?   ... View more