[HIVE-6805] metastore api should consider privileges to be case insensitive

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Component/s: Authorization
• Assignee: Thejas Nair
• Reporter: Thejas Nair
• Created: 01/Apr/14 09:03
• Updated: 29/Apr/14 20:57

Description

Metastore api has some code that considers privileges to be case sensitive.
This needs to be corrected.
For example in ObjectStore.grantPrivileges, the following check does a case sensitive comparison -

for (String privilege : privs) {
              if (privSet.contains(privilege)) {
                throw new InvalidObjectException(privilege
                    + " is already granted by " + grantor);
              }

Issue Links

• is related to: HIVE-6804 sql std auth - granting existing table privilege to owner should result in error