Return-Path: X-Original-To: apmail-hive-user-archive@www.apache.org Delivered-To: apmail-hive-user-archive@www.apache.org Received: from mail.apache.org (hermes.apache.org [140.211.11.3]) by minotaur.apache.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ABC12C224 for ; Fri, 18 May 2012 18:47:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 21079 invoked by uid 500); 18 May 2012 18:47:58 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-hive-user-archive@hive.apache.org Received: (qmail 21034 invoked by uid 500); 18 May 2012 18:47:58 -0000 Mailing-List: contact user-help@hive.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Post: List-Id: Reply-To: user@hive.apache.org Delivered-To: mailing list user@hive.apache.org Received: (qmail 21021 invoked by uid 99); 18 May 2012 18:47:58 -0000 Received: from athena.apache.org (HELO athena.apache.org) (140.211.11.136) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Fri, 18 May 2012 18:47:58 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=2.2 required=5.0 tests=HTML_MESSAGE,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received-SPF: pass (athena.apache.org: domain of luo@trulia.com designates 206.225.166.84 as permitted sender) Received: from [206.225.166.84] (HELO hub025-nj-1.exch025.serverdata.net) (206.225.166.84) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Fri, 18 May 2012 18:47:50 +0000 Received: from MBX025-E1-NJ-2.exch025.domain.local ([10.240.12.52]) by HUB025-NJ-1.exch025.domain.local ([10.240.12.30]) with mapi id 14.01.0355.002; Fri, 18 May 2012 11:47:29 -0700 From: Patrick Luo To: "user@hive.apache.org" Subject: Is there a way to create user account and grant read only permissions? Thread-Topic: Is there a way to create user account and grant read only permissions? Thread-Index: AQHNNSatD8XqZsZt+kub0gatqsLUKQ== Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 18:47:29 +0000 Message-ID: Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: user-agent: Microsoft-MacOutlook/14.2.2.120421 x-originating-ip: [64.124.34.2] Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="_000_CBDBE74FB894luotruliacom_" MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Virus-Checked: Checked by ClamAV on apache.org --_000_CBDBE74FB894luotruliacom_ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable My use case requires individual accounts for business users groups. Is ther= e a way to mimic MySQL (or other database) to create users with read-only p= ermissions? This avoid business user accidental table drop. Metastore has t= able ROLES but don=92t see documentation on that. Much appreciated if anyon= e can point to the documentation or share your thoughts on this? - Patrick --_000_CBDBE74FB894luotruliacom_ Content-Type: text/html; charset="Windows-1252" Content-ID: <0E8C971F26923247916D54124F436A1C@exch025.domain.local> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
My use case requires individual accounts for business users groups. Is= there a way to mimic MySQL (or other database) to create users with read-o= nly permissions? This avoid business user accidental table drop. Metastore = has table ROLES but don=92t see documentation on that. Much appreciated if anyone can point to the documentation or shar= e your thoughts on this? 

- Patrick 


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