[HBASE-11043] Users with table's read/write permission can't get table's description

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Not A Problem
• Affects Version/s: 0.99.0
• Component/s: security
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Shaohui Liu
• Created: 21/Apr/14 09:47
• Updated: 17/Jun/22 05:33
• Resolved: 22/Apr/14 00:19

Description

AccessController#preGetTableDescriptors only allow users with admin or create permission to get table's description.

requirePermission("getTableDescriptors", nameAsBytes, null, null,
Permission.Action.ADMIN, Permission.Action.CREATE);

I think Users with table's read/write permission should also be able to get table's description.

Eg: when create a hive table on HBase, hive will get the table description to check if the mapping is right. Usually the hive users only have the read permission of table.

Issue Links

• is related to: PHOENIX-946 Use Phoenix to service Hive queries over HBase data
• is related to: HBASE-8692 [AccessController] Restrict HTableDescriptor enumeration