I'm using Confluent's distribution of Hadoop and trying to funnel messages from Kafka (on a different machine) to HDFS. The 'owner' on the HDFS side is 'hadoop'.
The error is common enough, and I've tried setting HADOOP_USER_NAME=hadoop but I still get the same error referencing 'root' as the user. kafka-connect-hdfs has additional auth parameters, but they appear to all be for Kerberos, which is not engaged here.
Caused by: org.apache.hadoop.ipc.RemoteException(org.apache.hadoop.security.AccessControlException): Permission denied: user=root, access=WRITE, inode="/topics":hadoop:supergroup:drwxr-xr-x
