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Misty Stanley-Jones commented on HBASE-11869:
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Doc to be added when this is committed (just keeping track)
<para>Prior to HBase 0.94.1, a table could have an owner, which could be
different from the
table creator, and was stored in the column descriptor. This was
removed by <link
xlink:href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-6188";>HBASE-6188</link>,
and
instead, the creator of the table is considered its owner.</para>
<para>As of <link
xlink:href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-11869";>HBASE-11889</link>,
you can also assign
HBase Tables have a new metadata attribute <literal>OWNER</literal>,
which is added to
snapshots taken on that table, and designates who can restore the
table from a snapshot. By default, the
owner is the user principal who creates the table, though it may be
changed at table
creation time or during an <command>alter</command> operation by
setting or changing the
<option>OWNER</option> table attribute. Only a single user
principal can own a table at
a given time. A table owner is implicitly granted all permissions to
a given table.
</para>
> Support snapshot owner
> ----------------------
>
> Key: HBASE-11869
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-11869
> Project: HBase
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Liu Shaohui
> Assignee: Liu Shaohui
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 2.0.0
>
> Attachments: HBASE-11869-trunk-v1.diff, HBASE-11869-trunk-v3.diff,
> HBASE-11869-trunk-v4.diff
>
>
> In current codebase, the table snapshot operations only can be done by the
> global admin , not by the table admin.
> There is a multi-tenant hbase cluster, each table has different snapshot
> policies, eg: do snapshot per week, or snapshot after the new data are
> imported.
> We want to release the snapshot permission to each table admin.
> According to [~mbertozzi]'s suggestion, we implement the snapshot owner
> feature.
> * The user with table admin permission can create snapshot and the owner of
> this snapshot is this user.
> * The owner of snapshot can delete and restore the snapshot.
> * Only the user with global admin permission can clone a snapshot, for this
> operation creates a new table.
>
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