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• Restricted List and Whitelist
• Hive Client Security
• Hive Metastore Security
• SQL Standard Based Authorization

For an overview of authorization modes, see Hive Authorization.

Restricted List and Whitelist

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The privileges automatically granted to the owner whenever a table gets created. An example like "select,drop" will grant select and drop privilege to the owner of the table. Note that the default gives the creator of a table no access to the table.

Hive Metastore Security

Metastore-side security was added in Hive 0.10.0 (HIVE-3705).  For more information, see see the overview in Authorization and details in Storage Based Authorization in the Metastore Server Security in the Authorization document.

hive.metastore.pre.event.listeners

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