[KAFKA-10212] Describing a topic with the TopicCommand fails if unauthorised to use ListPartitionReassignments API

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.5.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.6.0, 2.5.1
• Assignee: David Jacot
• Reporter: David Jacot
• Reviewer: Manikumar
• Created: 29/Jun/20 13:10
• Updated: 30/Jun/20 01:21
• Resolved: 30/Jun/20 01:21

Description

Since https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-8834, describing topics with the TopicCommand requires privileges to use ListPartitionReassignments or fails to describe the topics with the following error:

Error while executing topic command : Cluster authorization failed. 

This is a quite hard restriction has most of the secure clusters do not authorize non admin members to access ListPartitionReassignments.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #8947
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #8951