There appears to be redundant code in the ZKAuthorizor's 'initializeSecurity' method. It's initializing a bunch of permissions that are unnecessary in the authorizor. The code seems to have been replicated from ZKPermHandler. I'd be willing to submit a patch if someone could confirm that I'm not missing something.
Code in question: https://github.com/apache/accumulo/blob/master/server/base/src/main/java/org/apache/accumulo/server/security/handler/ZKAuthorizor.java (lines 87-94 inclusive) Thanks. Srikanth
