Mark, The Global Policy "access users/user groups" has both "view" and "modify" options. In order for a user to be able to "access all policies", they must at least have view to "access users/user groups". This is why "Policies" remains greyed out for your user.
Matt On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 7:56 AM, Mark Bean <[email protected]> wrote: > We just setup a new cluster. A user has been granted: > > Global policy to access all policies (read and write) > Global policy to access the controller (read) > Global policy to view system diagnostics (read) > Global policy to view the user interface (read) > Admin policy for process group NiFi Flow (read) > Component policy for process group NiFi Flow (read) > > Despite those policies, the Global Menu > Policies option is still grayed > out and inaccessible. > > I don't think this is the same issue, but we discovered a browser-specific > problem related to policies and functionality as well. using Chrome 36.x, > (a different user) could select Global Menu > Policies (it wasn't grayed > out), but nothing happened. When he switched to FireFox 31.6.0, it worked > as expected; the Access Polices page came up when selecting it from the > menu. > > So, the first problem appears to be related to proper policy/permission > settings. I'm not understanding what policy is missing to allow the viewing > of Polices. The second is a browser-specific issue. I'm wondering if this > is a known issue. > > Please advise. > > Thanks, > Mark >
