Transfer metastore ownership, not able to create catalogs
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12-29-2022 10:43 AM
Hi there,
I am facing an issue when setting up the metastore.
I use an account admin user, and the user is part of a group called Unity admin.
The Unity admin group contains 2 users: me and another user, also account admin.
Without Unity catalog, for now I can create catalogs.
Then I create the metastore, without any issue.
Finally, I want to transfer the ownership to group, called Unity admin.
Once it is done, I (my user, account admin and part of Unity admin group which is the metastore owner) cannot create any catalog.
I get the message Requires permission CREATE_CATALOG on METASTORE primary .
If I add the permission to the group Unity admin, I still cannot create catalog.
If I add the permission to the user (me), it then becomes possible to create catalogs, but the ownership transfer becomes useless.
Any idea if I am missing something or did something wrong please?
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01-02-2023 09:41 AM
Hi, Could you please refer https://docs.databricks.com/data-governance/unity-catalog/manage-privileges/index.html#transfer-owne..., please let us know if this helps.

