Managing access to the Hive Metastore (HMS)

Before you begin

Ensure to have at least one Admin user to be able to update the role of an Admin user. For more information, see Managing access to the platform.

To give users access to HMS, complete the following steps:

1. Log in to the web client as an administrator.
2. From the navigation menu, select Instances.
3. On the Instances page, locate the lakehouse instance.
4. From the action menu, select Manage access.
5. To add a user with Metastore Admin role:
   1. Click Add users.
   2. From the list of users, select the user and grant the Metastore Admin role.
   3. Click Add.
6. To change the role of a User or Admin to a Metastore Admin:
   1. From the Access Management: lakehouse page, select the user with Admin or User role.
   2. Click the Service role menu and change the role to Metastore Admin.