[HBASE-19691] Do not require ADMIN permission for obtaining ClusterStatus

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.4.1, 2.0.0-beta-2, 2.0.0
• Hadoop Flags: Reviewed
• Release Note: This change reverts an unintentional requirement for global ADMIN permission to obtain cluster status from the active HMaster.
• Assignee: Josh Elser
• Reporter: Romil Choksi
• Created: 02/Jan/18 23:08
• Updated: 01/Feb/19 19:58
• Resolved: 04/Jan/18 00:22

Description

Appears to be a regression introduced by HBASE-19131. Operations that attempt to obtain the `status` from the HMaster now fail if the requesting user doesn't have global ADMIN permission.

Discussion: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/f1cd2a50e5c460879c97043790b33aa375cd6b217455d611c3417e3d@%3Cdev.hbase.apache.org%3E

Thanks to Romil for letting us know about this one.

FYI stack chia7712.