--- - name: Activate the users on hdfs, with the right permissions. become: yes become_user: hdfs shell: . /etc/profile.d/jdk.sh ; hadoop fs -mkdir {{ mapred_staging_root_dir }}/{{ item.login }} ; hadoop fs -chown {{ item.login }}:{{ item.login }} {{ mapred_staging_root_dir }}/{{ item.login }} ; hadoop fs -chmod 755 {{ mapred_staging_root_dir }}/{{ item.login }} ; touch /var/lib/hadoop-hdfs/.{{ item.login }} with_items: '{{ hadoop_users }}' args: creates: '/var/lib/hadoop-hdfs/.{{ item.login }}' register: create_user tags: - hdfs - users - hadoop_users