hadoop: set file permissions to a user

#Before user can write to hdfs we need to set permissions

sudo -u hdfs hadoop fs -mkdir /user/username
sudo -u hdfs hadoop fs -chown username:usergroup /user/
username

#if we need to write to hdfs from remote machine ( append avro file, for example )

       //if user exist it return its ugi
       UserGroupInformation ugi = UserGroupInformation.createRemoteUser("username");
        ugi.doAs(new PrivilegedExceptionAction() {
            public Void run() throws Exception {

                Configuration conf = new Configuration();
                conf.set("fs.defaultFS", "hdfs://hadoop-server");

                FileSystem fs = FileSystem.get(conf);

                DatumWriter xmlOrderInfoWriter = new SpecificDatumWriter(XmlOrderInfo.class);
                DataFileWriter dataFileWriter = new DataFileWriter(xmlOrderInfoWriter);

                Path filePath = new Path("/user//data/myfolder/test-xml-files.avro");
                OutputStream out = fs.append(filePath);

                dataFileWriter.appendTo(new FsInput(filePath,conf),out);
                dataFileWriter.append(xmlOrderInfo);
                dataFileWriter.close();
                out.close();
                System.out.println("Test avro file is appended in HDFS successfully");

                return null;
            }

        });