diff --git a/hudi-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hudi/common/testutils/minicluster/HdfsTestService.java b/hudi-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hudi/common/testutils/minicluster/HdfsTestService.java
index 44af4ecea7c71..245377e5bf313 100644
--- a/hudi-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hudi/common/testutils/minicluster/HdfsTestService.java
+++ b/hudi-common/src/test/java/org/apache/hudi/common/testutils/minicluster/HdfsTestService.java
@@ -144,6 +144,7 @@ private static Configuration configureDFSCluster(Configuration config, String lo
     String user = System.getProperty("user.name");
     config.set("hadoop.proxyuser." + user + ".groups", "*");
     config.set("hadoop.proxyuser." + user + ".hosts", "*");
+    config.setBoolean("dfs.permissions",false);
     return config;
   }