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Ismael Juma commented on KAFKA-5547:
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It may be worth considering this for 0.11.1.0 as it would improve usability
when enabling security, which is a bit of a problem at the moment.
> Return topic authorization failed if no topic describe access
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> Key: KAFKA-5547
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-5547
> Project: Kafka
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Jason Gustafson
> Labels: security, usability
> Fix For: 0.11.1.0
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> We previously made a change to several of the request APIs to return
> UNKNOWN_TOPIC_OR_PARTITION if the principal does not have Describe access to
> the topic. The thought was to avoid leaking information about which topics
> exist. The problem with this is that a client which sees this error will just
> keep retrying because it is usually treated as retriable. It seems, however,
> that we could return TOPIC_AUTHORIZATION_FAILED instead and still avoid
> leaking information as long as we ensure that the Describe authorization
> check comes before the topic existence check. This would avoid the ambiguity
> on the client.
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