Change permissions of a file in HDFS

Question

Hi Guys,

I have uploaded files to HDFS Cluster. I want to change the permissions of this file. How can I do that? 

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

You can use the Chmod command to do your task. This command is used to change the permissions of a file. It works similarly to the Linux shell command as well. You can see the syntax below.

$ hadoop fs -chmod [-R] PATH