[jira] [Commented] (ACCUMULO-1318) Allow granting System.GRANT permission

["Josh Elser (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Josh Elser commented on ACCUMULO-1318:
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FYI this is biting me right now in testing, so I'm going to push a change for this.

I'll leave it assigned to you for now. If there's something else you were planning on doing (as a part of the parent issue), I don't want to prematurely close it from underneath you :)

> Allow granting System.GRANT permission
> --------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: ACCUMULO-1318
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ACCUMULO-1318
>             Project: Accumulo
>          Issue Type: Sub-task
>          Components: master, tserver
>            Reporter: Christopher Tubbs
>            Assignee: Christopher Tubbs
>              Labels: security
>             Fix For: 1.7.0
>
>
> With the addition of pluggable authentication/authorizor/permissions handler modules (ACCUMULO-259), it seems we should rely more on these modules to set their policy for who has which permissions.
> As such, I don't believe we should continue to constrain the System.GRANT permission, so that it is held only by the root user. This is an especially important consideration for ACCUMULO-1300, because in that ticket, there will always be a "local" root user, but there's no reason that should be the de-facto account that manages other users' permissions from.



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