Running any kafka acl commands fails

[khoi dinh <kh...@yahoo.com.INVALID>]

I am trying to run any kafka acl commands from adding, deleting, and list. An example command is:

../bin/kafka-acls.sh --authorizer-properties
zookeeper.connect=localhost:2181 --add --allow-principal User:demouser
--operation Create --operation Describe  --topic demo-topic



But I always get the error:


    Error while executing ACL command: Exception while loading Zookeeper JAAS login context 'Client'
    org.apache.kafka.common.KafkaException: Exception while loading Zookeeper JAAS login context 'Client'
    	at org.apache.kafka.common.security.JaasUtils.isZkSecurityEnabled(JaasUtils.java:45)
    	at kafka.admin.AclCommand$AuthorizerService.withAuthorizer(AclCommand.scala:197)
    	at kafka.admin.AclCommand$AuthorizerService.addAcls(AclCommand.scala:221)
    	at kafka.admin.AclCommand$.main(AclCommand.scala:70)
    	at kafka.admin.AclCommand.main(AclCommand.scala)
    Caused by: java.lang.SecurityException: java.io.IOException: /remote/sde108/kafka/kafka/config/config.conf (No such file or directory)
    	at sun.security.provider.ConfigFile$Spi.<init>(ConfigFile.java:137)
    	at sun.security.provider.ConfigFile.<init>(ConfigFile.java:102)
    	at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)
    	at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62)
    	at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.java:45)
    	at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Constructor.java:423)
    	at java.lang.Class.newInstance(Class.java:442)
    	at javax.security.auth.login.Configuration$2.run(Configuration.java:255)
    	at javax.security.auth.login.Configuration$2.run(Configuration.java:247)
    	at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    	at javax.security.auth.login.Configuration.getConfiguration(Configuration.java:246)
    	at org.apache.kafka.common.security.JaasUtils.isZkSecurityEnabled(JaasUtils.java:42)
    	... 4 more
    Caused by: java.io.IOException: /remote/sde108/kafka/kafka/config/config.conf (No such file or directory)
    	at sun.security.provider.ConfigFile$Spi.ioException(ConfigFile.java:666)
    	at sun.security.provider.ConfigFile$Spi.init(ConfigFile.java:262)
    	at sun.security.provider.ConfigFile$Spi.<init>(ConfigFile.java:135)
    	... 15 more


Based on my search, there is no file called config.conf in the kafka or zookeeper installation. Did anyone encounter a similar problem or the same one and knows how to fix it?