This is the documentation for CDH 5.1.x. Documentation for other versions is available at Cloudera Documentation.

Apache Sentry (incubating) Known Issues

—INSERT OVERWRITE LOCAL fails if you use only the Linux pathname

Bug: None

Severity: Low

Workaround: Prefix the path of the local file with file:// when using INSERT OVERWRITE LOCAL.

—INSERT OVERWRITE and CREATE EXTERNAL commands fail because of HDFS URI permissions

When you use Sentry to secure Hive, and use HDFS URIs in a HiveQL statement, the query will fail with an HDFS permissions error unless you specify the NameNode and port.

Bug: None

Severity: Low

Workaround: Specify the NameNode and port, where applicable, in the URI; for example specify hdfs://nn-uri:port/user/warehouse/hive/tab rather than simply /user/warehouse/hive/tab. In a high-availability deployment, specify the value of FS.defaultFS.

—Hive Auth (Grant/Revoke/Show Grant) statements do not support fully qualified table names (default.tab1)

Bug: None

Severity: Low

Workaround: Switch to the database before granting privileges on the table.

—Object types Server and URI are not supported in SHOW GRANT ROLE roleName on OBJECT objectName

Bug: None

Severity: Low

Workaround: Use SHOW GRANT ROLE roleNameto list all privileges granted to the role.

— Sentry URI permissions do not work in a federated HDFS cluster

Bug: SENTRY-408

Severity: Medium

Workaround: None

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