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To make matters worse, my "you must switch to hdfs to create the home directory and change the owner" is actually wrong.  You can just switch to the newly created user and keep on keeping on.

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[root@sandbox ~]# useradd nonadminuser
[root@sandbox ~]# su nonadminuser
[nonadminuser@sandbox root]$ hdfs dfs -mkdir /user/nonadminuser
[nonadminuser@sandbox root]$ hdfs dfs -chgrp nonadminuser /user/nonadminuser
[nonadminuser@sandbox root]$ hdfs dfs -ls /user

   ... rm'd some lines ...

drwxr-xr-x   - nonadminuser   nonadminuser           0 2014-08-14 00:01 /user/nonadminuser

   ... rm'd some lines ...

If you want to have a process that doesn't involve switching to any other user, (or more importantly, want to have other linux users with superuser rights) then please read on.

Thinking about it a bit later, I realized I actually never ran this one down.  Navigating through the Hadoop site got me to http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r2.4.1/hadoop-project-dist/hadoop-hdfs/HdfsPermissionsGuide.html#The_Super-User which told me what I've been espousing all along; the user that starts up the NameNode (NN) is the superuser.  Then I saw it – the phrase that let me know I was wrong in my reply...

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