Drill does use HDFS/Mapr-FS impersonation to push identity down to the 
underlying storage system - HDFS, MapR-FS, MapR-DB. Once that is done the 
underlying storage system can then perform authorization. This is a robust 
model that is advantageous as it ensures that data is protected the same way 
regardless of access path. It may be that there are additional storage systems 
which Drill does not yet impersonate to. Can you say more in terms of 
requirements?

Drill impersonation: 
https://drill.apache.org/docs/configuring-user-impersonation/

In addition Drill supports views which can be created and shared amongst users. 
Basically I can create a view on data I own and share that view with others 
that can't see the underlying data but can see the view.

Drill views: http://drill.apache.org/docs/create-view-command/

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> On Jul 29, 2016, at 9:50 AM, Steve Warren <swar...@myvest.com> wrote:
> 
> With Drill I can authenticate a user and distinguish between ADMIN and
> USER. However, there doesn't seem to be much (any) in the way of per user
> authorizations beyond that. Example uses being:
> 
> 1) Allowing for per user AWS credentials.
> 2) Returning a token or other profile information from the authentication
> process that can be passed into each storage plugin.
> 3) ACL for storage plugins (by user group).
> 
> Are there any plans to extend the authorization capabilities in these areas?
> 
> Cheers
> 
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