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Verify permissions

To extract metadata and to configure other capabilities that a catalog source might include, you need account access and permissions on the source system. The permissions required might vary depending on the capability.

Permissions for metadata extraction

To extract Hadoop Distributed File System metadata, you need account access and permissions to the Hadoop Distributed File System source system.
Verify that the Hadoop Distributed File System administrator performs the following tasks:
Verify that the user of the Cloudera CDP, Amazon EMR, Azure HDInsight, or Google Dataproc cluster has read permissions on the source.

Permissions to run data profiles

You can run profiles with the permissions required on the source system to perform metadata extraction.

Permissions to run data classification

You can perform data classification with the permissions required on the source system to perform metadata extraction.

Permissions to run glossary association

You can perform glossary association with the permissions required on the source system to perform metadata extraction.