[HBASE-12622] user_permission should require global admin to display global and ns permissions

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.98.8, 0.99.2, 2.0.0
• Fix Version/s: 1.0.0, 0.98.9
• Component/s: security
• Assignee: Matteo Bertozzi
• Reporter: Matteo Bertozzi
• Created: 03/Dec/14 10:15
• Updated: 06/Apr/18 17:54
• Resolved: 05/Dec/14 11:18

Description

user_permission check the user permission only on the table level (requiring at least a table-level admin)
global and namespace permission listing is done without checking anything.
but only a global admins should be able to perform this operations.

Issue Links

• depends upon: HBASE-12634 Fix the AccessController#requireGlobalPermission(ns) with NS