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Vinod K V commented on HADOOP-6715: ----------------------------------- Um.. 'ALL', 'USERS', 'NONE' can themselves be users/groups and will lead to confusions, however corner-cased they might be. How about something simpler like the following? Essentially, I'm trying to make the space character stand out by using special chars '[' and ']' which are unlikely to end up in user/group names. {code} Job-ACLs: [*] Job-ACLs: [ ] Job-ACLs: [ group1] Job-ACLs: [user1,user2 group1,group2] {code} > AccessControlList.toString() returns empty string when we set acl to "*" > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Key: HADOOP-6715 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HADOOP-6715 > Project: Hadoop Common > Issue Type: Bug > Components: security, util > Reporter: Ravi Gummadi > Assignee: Ravi Gummadi > > AccessControlList.toString() returns empty string when we set the acl to "\*" > and also when we set it to empty(i.e. " "). This is causing wrong values for > ACLs shown on jobdetails.jsp and jobdetailshistory.jsp web pages when acls > are set to "\*". > I think AccessControlList.toString() needs to be changed to return "\*" when > we set the acl to "\*". -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.