Permission denied at hdfs

I solved this problem temporary by disabling the dfs permission.By adding below property codeto conf/hdfs-site.xml

<property>  <name>dfs.permissions</name>  <value>false</value></property>

I had similar situation and here is my approach which is somewhat different:

 HADOOP_USER_NAME=hdfs hdfs dfs -put /root/MyHadoop/file1.txt /

What you actually do is you read local file in accordance to your local permissions but when placing file on HDFS you are authenticated like user hdfs. You can do this with other ID (beware of real auth schemes configuration but this is usually not a case).

Advantages:

1. Permissions are kept on HDFS.
2. You don't need sudo.
3. You don't need actually appropriate local user 'hdfs' at all.
4. You don't need to copy anything or change permissions because of previous points.

You are experiencing two separate problems here:

hduser@ubuntu:/usr/local/hadoop$ hadoop fs -put /usr/local/input-data/ /input put: /usr/local/input-data (Permission denied)

Here, the user hduser does not have access to the local directory /usr/local/input-data. That is, your local permissions are too restrictive. You should change it.

hduser@ubuntu:/usr/local/hadoop$ sudo bin/hadoop fs -put /usr/local/input-data/ /inwe put: org.apache.hadoop.security.AccessControlException: Permission denied: user=root, access=WRITE, inode="":hduser:supergroup:rwxr-xr-x

Here, the user root (since you are using sudo) does not have access to the HDFS directory /input. As you can see: hduser:supergroup:rwxr-xr-x says only hduser has write access. Hadoop doesn't really respect root as a special user.

To fix this, I suggest you change the permissions on the local data:

sudo chmod -R og+rx /usr/local/input-data/

Then, try the put command again as hduser.