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Note: Support for HDFS ACL (introduced in Apache Hadoop 2.4) is yet to be added to this model. Which not available in the released versions of Hive. Which means, that it checks only the traditional rwx style permissions to determine if a user can write to the file system. The support for ACL is available in hive trunk HIVE-7583, which will be available in hive 0.14.
Links to documentation for different releases of Hadoop can be found here: http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/.
Minimum Permissions
The following table shows the minimum permissions required for Hive operations under this authorization model:
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