[HBASE-11136] Add permission check to roll WAL writer

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.96.2, 0.98.2
• Fix Version/s: 0.99.0, 0.98.7
• Component/s: regionserver, security
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Assignee: Jerry He
• Reporter: Jerry He
• Created: 08/May/14 04:39
• Updated: 06/Apr/18 17:51
• Resolved: 15/Sep/14 17:56

Description

Currently HBase provides HBaseAdmin.rollHLogWriter() and shell command to roll WAL on a region server. But no permission check is done on this operation in a secure cluster.
We need to add permission check to prevent un-authorized user from running this operation.

Sub-Tasks

• Document new permission check to roll WAL writer: Closed