Why does “hadoop fs -mkdir” fail with Permission Denied?

Question

I am using Cloudera on a VM machine that I am playing around with. Unfortunately I am having issues copying data to the HDFS, I am getting the following:

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Answer 1

In cloudera manager, you can change the settings: hdfs->configuration->view&edit, uncheck the Check HDFS Permissions dfs.permissions and restart the hdfs.