Hello,    we have a a CDH5.16.2 Cluster with Hue connected to ActiveDirectory.  We can login and access Hive as an example.    But the automatic creation of a user is not working.  The error Message is :  [09/Jan/2020 17:57:10 +0100] views ERROR Could not create home directory at login for *****. Traceback (most recent call last): File "/opt/cloudera/parcels/CDH-5.16.2-1.cdh5.16.2.p0.8/lib/hue/desktop/core/src/desktop/auth/views.py", line 129, in dt_login ensure_home_directory(request.fs, user) File "/opt/cloudera/parcels/CDH-5.16.2-1.cdh5.16.2.p0.8/lib/hue/apps/useradmin/src/useradmin/views.py", line 811, in ensure_home_directory fs.do_as_user(username, fs.create_home_dir, home_directory) File "/opt/cloudera/parcels/CDH-5.16.2-1.cdh5.16.2.p0.8/lib/hue/desktop/core/src/desktop/lib/fs/proxyfs.py", line 102, in do_as_user return fn(*args, **kwargs) File "/opt/cloudera/parcels/CDH-5.16.2-1.cdh5.16.2.p0.8/lib/hue/desktop/core/src/desktop/lib/fs/proxyfs.py", line 171, in create_home_dir self._get_fs(home_path).create_home_dir(home_path) File "/opt/cloudera/parcels/CDH-5.16.2-1.cdh5.16.2.p0.8/lib/hue/desktop/libs/hadoop/src/hadoop/fs/hadoopfs.py", line 252, in create_home_dir self.mkdir(home_path) File "/opt/cloudera/parcels/CDH-5.16.2-1.cdh5.16.2.p0.8/lib/hue/desktop/libs/hadoop/src/hadoop/fs/webhdfs.py", line 434, in mkdir success = self._root.put(path, params, headers=headers) File "/opt/cloudera/parcels/CDH-5.16.2-1.cdh5.16.2.p0.8/lib/hue/desktop/core/src/desktop/lib/rest/resource.py", line 170, in put allow_redirects=allow_redirects, clear_cookies=clear_cookies) File "/opt/cloudera/parcels/CDH-5.16.2-1.cdh5.16.2.p0.8/lib/hue/desktop/core/src/desktop/lib/rest/resource.py", line 78, in invoke log_response=log_response) File "/opt/cloudera/parcels/CDH-5.16.2-1.cdh5.16.2.p0.8/lib/hue/desktop/core/src/desktop/lib/rest/resource.py", line 97, in _invoke clear_cookies=clear_cookies) File "/opt/cloudera/parcels/CDH-5.16.2-1.cdh5.16.2.p0.8/lib/hue/desktop/core/src/desktop/lib/rest/http_client.py", line 215, in execute raise self._exc_class(ex) WebHdfsException: AccessControlException: Permission denied: user=root, access=WRITE, inode="/user":hdfs:*******:drwxr-xr-x (error 500)   For me it looks like that "root" want create the homedir but root has no rigths.    We also set dfs.permissions.supergroup, dfs.permissions.superusergroup to another value so admins came from AD.  We dont use kerberos at the moment.    rg marcel   ... View more