Oozie shell action not running as submitting user
you can make run with help of env-var
<env-var>HADOOP_USER_NAME=${wf:user()}</env-var><workflow-app xmlns="uri:oozie:workflow:0.3" name="shell-wf"> <start to="shell-node"/> <action name="shell-node"> <shell xmlns="uri:oozie:shell-action:0.1"> <job-tracker>${jobTracker}</job-tracker> <name-node>${nameNode}</name-node> <configuration> <property> <name>mapred.job.queue.name</name> <value>${queueName}</value> </property> </configuration> <exec>test.sh</exec> <env-var>HADOOP_USER_NAME=${wf:user()}</env-var> <file>/user/root/test.sh</file> </shell> <ok to="end"/> <error to="fail"/> </action> <kill name="fail"> <message>Shell action failed, error message[${wf:errorMessage(wf:lastErrorNode())}]</message> </kill> <end name="end"/></workflow-app>