Apache Ambari Views
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Set up HDFS User Directory

The Hive View stores user metadata in HDFS. By default, the location in HDFS for this metadata is /user/${username} where ${username} is the username of the currently logged in user that is accessing the Hive View.

[Important]Important

Since many users leverage the default Ambari admin user for getting started with Ambari, you must create the /user/admin folder in HDFS using these instructions before using Hive view.

To create user directories in HDFS, for each Hive View user:

Steps

  1. Connect to a host in the cluster that includes the HDFS client.

  2. Switch to the hdfs system account user.

    su - hdfs
  3. Using the HDFS client, make an HDFS directory for the user. For example, if your username is admin, you would create the following directory.

    hadoop fs -mkdir /user/admin
  4. Set the ownership on the newly created directory. For example, if your username is admin, you would make that user the directory owner.

    hadoop fs -chown admin:hadoop /user/admin