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Re: GRANT ROLE To a USER in Impala + Sentry

by New Contributor in Support Questions
‎01-05-2021 06:12 PM
‎01-05-2021 06:12 PM
@Shelton - Thanks for your response.   I am able to grant role to a user in Sentry through beeline.  CREATE ROLE datascientist; GRANT ROLE datascientist TO USER mayank;   Above commands seems to work fine in Beeline, I am also able to view role in users current roles SHOW CURRENT ROLES; +---------------+ | tab_name | ----------------| | datascientist | -----------------  However when I execute the same command in Impala. I don't see any roles assigned to this user.   ... View more

GRANT ROLE To a USER in Impala + Sentry

by New Contributor in Support Questions
‎01-05-2021 09:59 AM
‎01-05-2021 09:59 AM
Hi,   We have setup a cluster by manually installing all the Tarballs  Hive and Impala have been configured to use sentry for authorization.   We have created roles in Sentry using following Hive command create role admin;   Next we are trying to assign this role to a user: GRANT ROLE admin to user mayank;   Above command works fine in Hive, however it fails in Impala with the following error: AnalysisException Encountered: IDENTIFIER Expected: GROUP   Now when we try to run the following command from Hive: show current roles;   We can see the result: admin   However same command in Impala doesn't return any result.    It seems Impala is only recognizing Role entitlements to Group and not to a User unlike Hive. Please let me know if this is by design or due to configuration Error in our cluster   Hive version: 2.3.2, Senty version: 2.0, Impala version: 2.7 ... View more
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