Drop any table even without privilege -------------------------------------
Key: HIVE-2817 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-2817 Project: Hive Issue Type: Bug Affects Versions: 0.7.1 Reporter: Benyi Wang You can drop any table if you use fully qualified name 'database.table' even you don't have any previlige. {code} hive> set hive.security.authorization.enabled=true; hive> revoke all on default from user test_user; hive> drop table abc; hive> drop table abc; Authorization failed:No privilege 'Drop' found for outputs { database:default, table:abc}. Use show grant to get more details. hive> drop table default.abc; OK Time taken: 0.13 seconds {code} The table and the file in {{/usr/hive/warehouse}} or external file will be deleted. If you don't have hadoop access permission on {{/usr/hive/warehouse}} or external files, you will see a hadoop access error {code} 12/02/23 15:35:35 ERROR hive.log: org.apache.hadoop.security.AccessControlException: org.apache.hadoop.security.AccessControlException: Permission denied: user=test_user, access=WRITE, inode="/user/myetl":myetl:etl:drwxr-xr-x at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:39) {code} -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. If you think it was sent incorrectly, please contact your JIRA administrators: https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ContactAdministrators!default.jspa For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira