[jira] [Created] (HBASE-20080) Have HBase shell warn users when cell visibility and simple authentication are in use together

["Mike Thomsen (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Mike Thomsen created HBASE-20080:
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             Summary: Have HBase shell warn users when cell visibility and simple authentication are in use together
                 Key: HBASE-20080
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-20080
             Project: HBase
          Issue Type: Improvement
            Reporter: Mike Thomsen


When simple authentication and cell visibility are enabled, it's pretty easy for users (particularly new ones) to accidentally log in as the same user that is running HBase. That can lead to it looking like cell visibility isn't working when it really is.

This is probably an issue mainly for local installations on development machines, but it should show a warning saying something like "HBase is running as \{principle} and you logged in as \{principle}. Cell visibility is enabled, but will return all rows because you are acting as the superuser."



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