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  1. Ranger
  2. RANGER-1195

Ranger should allow for "Show Columns" and "describe" on tables where user access is limited to a subset of columns.

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    • Improvement
    • Status: Resolved
    • Major
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • 0.5.1, 0.5.2, 0.6.0, 0.5.3, 0.6.1
    • 0.7.0
    • plugins
    • None

    Description

      If you create a Hive policy in Ranger which allows only a subset of columns in a table, users are unable to "select * from tablename" or "describe tablename". The user must know in advance to which columns they are allowed access, but they can't use "describe" to see a list of columns they are allowed.

      When doing either select or describe in Hive, Ranger should dynamically filter the columns the user is not allowed to see.

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        1. RANGER-1195.patch
          5 kB
          Ramesh Mani

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            rmani Ramesh Mani
            Jaraxal Michael Young
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