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Andrew Purtell commented on HBASE-12346:
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The default scan label generator has the behavior you describe. If you don't
ask for any authorizations you don't get any. There is another label generator
that will do what you want but will force the user's assigned set. Label
generators are stackable. It could make sense to change all of this around a
bit to have the default configuration start with the generator that adds labels
assigned to the user in the labels table, with another generator stacked on top
that adds auths passed in on a Scan attribute. This would be more flexible then
the result after the proposed patch is applied.
> Scan's default auths behavior under Visibility labels
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>
> Key: HBASE-12346
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-12346
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Bug
> Components: API, security
> Affects Versions: 0.98.7, 0.99.1
> Reporter: Jerry He
> Attachments: HBASE-12346-master.patch
>
>
> In Visibility Labels security, a set of labels (auths) are administered and
> associated with a user.
> A user can normally only see cell data during scan that are part of the
> user's label set (auths).
> Scan uses setAuthorizations to indicates its wants to use the auths to access
> the cells.
> Similarly in the shell:
> {code}
> scan 'table1', AUTHORIZATIONS => ['private']
> {code}
> But it is a surprise to find that setAuthorizations seems to be 'mandatory'
> in the default visibility label security setting. Every scan needs to
> setAuthorizations before the scan can get any cells even the cells are under
> the labels the request user is part of.
> The following steps will illustrate the issue:
> Run as superuser.
> {code}
> 1. create a visibility label called 'private'
> 2. create 'table1'
> 3. put into 'table1' data and label the data as 'private'
> 4. set_auths 'user1', 'private'
> 5. grant 'user1', 'RW', 'table1'
> {code}
> Run as 'user1':
> {code}
> 1. scan 'table1'
> This show no cells.
> 2. scan 'table1', scan 'table1', AUTHORIZATIONS => ['private']
> This will show all the data.
> {code}
> I am not sure if this is expected by design or a bug.
> But a more reasonable, more client application backward compatible, and less
> surprising default behavior should probably look like this:
> A scan's default auths, if its Authorizations attributes is not set
> explicitly, should be all the auths the request user is administered and
> allowed on the server.
> If scan.setAuthorizations is used, then the server further filter the auths
> during scan: use the input auths minus what is not in user's label set on the
> server.
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