I would expect the reasoning is something along the lines of "if authentication isn't enabled anyone could impersonate the owner so it doesn't matter."
On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 7:00 AM, ashish singhi <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all. > > While taking a snapshot we set the owner of a snapshot only when hbase > security authentication is set to Kerberos. > Can someone please explain me why we are doing like that ? > > Regards, > Ashish Singhi > > -- Sean
