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[jira] [Commented] (HIVE-2079) The warehouse directory shouldn't be 777'ed

    [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-2079?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel&focusedCommentId=13012994#comment-13012994 ] 

Edward Capriolo commented on HIVE-2079:
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Really? What should it be? Any why? How does this apply to deployments outside yours? 

> The warehouse directory shouldn't be 777'ed
> -------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: HIVE-2079
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HIVE-2079
>             Project: Hive
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Metastore, Security
>            Reporter: Devaraj Das
>            Assignee: Mac Yang
>             Fix For: 0.8.0
>
>
> The warehouse directory is created with a permissions of 777. This is to allow any user to successfully create database/table directories there. The security issue is that anyone can delete any directory in the warehouse. We should fix this hole.

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