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To make matters worse, my "you must switch to
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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