Can't write to hdfs

[eamocanu]

The user "root" doesn't have write access to the hdfs directory "/topics".

I start up the docker image:
docker run -d -p 9000:9000 sequenceiq/hadoop-docker:2.7.1

then run kafka connector-hdfs and get this error:

[2016-09-12 17:19:28,039] INFO Couldn't start HdfsSinkConnector: (io.confluent.connect.hdfs.HdfsSinkTask:72)
org.apache.kafka.connect.errors.ConnectException: org.apache.hadoop.security.AccessControlException: Permission denied: user=fclvappi005561, access=WRITE, inode="/topics":root:supergroup:drwxr-xr-x

[Fr8Traindb]

I have the same problem. Did you find a workaround?

[eamocanu]

Nope I went another route.
Try file permissions or run it in root mode.