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After I changed the "superuser" group to be animals, I can now could then make the changes that I wanted to earlier.
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Which can now also be done as a "real" user if set up appropriately. If bat had appropriate sudo rights, then I could have done the following without starting out at root.
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[hdfs@sandbox root]$ exit exit [root@sandbox ~]# useradd user2 [root@sandbox ~]# su bat [bat@sandbox root]$ hdfs dfs -mkdir /user/user2 [bat@sandbox root]$ hdfs dfs -ls /user ... rm'd some lines ... NOTICE THAT THE GROUP STILL DEFAULTS TO hdfs, NOT animals drwxr-xr-x - user1 user1 0 2014-08-13 23:49 /user/user1 drwxr-xr-x - bat hdfs 0 2014-08-13 23:55 /user/user2 [bat@sandbox root]$ hdfs dfs -chown user2 /user/user2 [bat@sandbox root]$ hdfs dfs -chgrp user2 /user/user2 [bat@sandbox root]$ hdfs dfs -ls /user ... rm'd some lines ... drwxr-xr-x - user1 user1 0 2014-08-13 23:49 /user/user1 drwxr-xr-x - user2 user2 0 2014-08-13 23:55 /user/user2 |
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