Making hive usable to multiple users in a hadoop cluster.

By default, hive operations are limited to the superuser. If you are using cdh, then the superuser is hdfs.
The reason for this is because of the permission of hive warehouse directory.
By default the read/permission of this directory is given only to the superuser.
So if we want to use hive from multiple users, change the permission of this directory accordingly.
If you want to make hive usable by all users, then do the following command.

hadoop fs –chmod –R 777 /user/hive/warehouse

hadoop fs –chmod –R 777 /tmp

If you group the users in specific groups, then you can do this by giving read/write permission to group only. ie 775