[HDFS-8112] Relax permission checking for EC related operations

• Type: Sub-task
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Blocker
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.0.0-alpha1
• Fix Version/s: 3.0.0-alpha4
• Component/s: erasure-coding
• Labels: hdfs-ec-3.0-must-do
• Target Version/s: 3.0.0-alpha4
• Release Note: The HdfsAdmin erasure coding APIs (set, unset, get) are now usable by non-superusers based on appropriate file and directory permissions.
• Assignee: Andrew Wang
• Reporter: Kai Zheng
• Created: 09/Apr/15 08:54
• Updated: 24/Apr/18 20:46
• Resolved: 03/Mar/17 21:00

Description

We should allow to enforce authorization policy to protect administration operations for EC zone and schemas as such behaviors would impact too much for a system.

Issue Links

• relates to: HDFS-8125 Erasure Coding: Expose refreshECSchemas command to reload predefined schemas