Yes. But, technically, you don't have to give it CREATE_TABLE perms if you create the table first, and give the tracer user WRITE perms.
-Eric On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Terry P. <[email protected]> wrote: > To help get the Accumulo root password out of my accumulo-site.xml file > (security folks get touchy when they find 'root' and 'password' together in > a clear text file), I'd like to configure the tracer to run as a separate > user. > > Is it as simple as: > > 1. create a user and give that user create_table permissions > 2. edit accumulo-site.xml and set trace.user value to new user and > trace.password to its password > 3. stop the tracer using bin/stop-server.sh <tracer-server> tracer > 4. drop the existing trace table > 5. start the tracer using bin/start-server.sh <tracer-server> tracer > > Thanks in advance everyone. >
