Hive org apache hadoop security AccessControlException Permission denied user

Question

Getting security error upon creating a table

hive> create table trxnrecords(txnno INT, txndate STRING, custno INT, amount DOUBLE, category STRING, product STRING, city STRING, state STRING, spendby STRING)
> row format delimited
> fields terminated by ",";
FAILED: Execution Error, return code 1 from org.apache.hadoop.hive.ql.exec.DDLTask. MetaException(message:Got exception: org.apache.hadoop.security.AccessControlException Permission denied: user=edureka_574496, access=WRITE, inode
="/user/hive/warehouse/retail.db":edureka_1009:hive:drwxrwxr-t

Answer 1

This error is generally thrown when the table name you have mentioned is already present. So, to rectify the error, either try changing the table name or else first create a database and then create this table in it.