[KUDU-2341] [DOCS] Kudu/Sentry docs are out of date

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Invalid
• Fix Version/s: n/a
• Component/s: documentation
• Labels: docs
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Thomas Tauber-Marshall
• Created: 13/Mar/18 17:15
• Updated: 13/Mar/18 17:18
• Resolved: 13/Mar/18 17:18

Description

The documentation of Impala's support for Sentry authorization on Kudu tables, available here:
http://impala.apache.org/docs/build/html/topics/impala_kudu.html

is out of date. It should be updated to include the changes made in IMPALA-5489. In particular:

• Access is no longer "all or nothing" - we support column-level permissions
• Permissions do not apply "to all SQL operations" - we support SELECT- and INSERT-specific permissions. DELETE/UPDATE/UPSERT still require ALL

We should also document that "all on server" is required to specify "kudu.master_addresses" in a CREATE, even for managed tables, in addition to be required to CREATE any external table.