[jira] [Resolved] (HDFS-1113) Allow users with write access to a directory to change ownership of its subdirectories/files

["Allen Wittenauer (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-1113?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Allen Wittenauer resolved HDFS-1113.
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    Resolution: Fixed

There are multiple ways to close this one. Pick your preferred option:

a) Consensus is unlikely to get reached.

b) ACLs and/or extended attributes provide a fix for this issue.

In either case, I'm closing it.

> Allow users with write access to a directory to change ownership of its subdirectories/files
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>
>                 Key: HDFS-1113
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HDFS-1113
>             Project: Hadoop HDFS
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>          Components: namenode
>         Environment: All
>            Reporter: Milind Bhandarkar
>            Assignee: Sanjay Radia
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> owner and group of a file/directory, and namespace/diskspace quota for a directory are mutable attributes. If I have writable access to a directory, say /team/MyTeam, and if there are subdirectories underneath, such as /team/MyTeam/TeamMember1, /team/MyTeam/TeamMember2, then I should be able to chown, chgrp, setQuota, clrQuota on TeamMemeber{1|2} subdirectories. Currently in HDFS (and in Posix), it requires me to be a superuser to perform these operations.



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