[CASSANDRA-8849] ListUsersStatement should consider inherited superuser status

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Low
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.2.0 beta 1
• Component/s: Legacy/CQL, Legacy/Distributed Metadata
• Assignee: Sam Tunnicliffe
• Reporter: Sam Tunnicliffe

Authors

Sam Tunnicliffe

Reviewers

Aleksey Yeschenko

• Created: 22/Feb/15 21:56
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:31
• Resolved: 04/Mar/15 00:03

Description

When introducing roles in CASSANDRA-7653, we retained LIST USERS support for backwards compatibility. However, the super column in its results is derived from IRoleManager#isSuper which only returns the superuser status for the named role and doesn't consider any other roles granted to it.

LIST USERS then incorrectly shows a role which does not directly have superuser status, but which inherits it as not-a-superuser.