To be clear, Accumulo also has per-user security tokens, which are tied to the user, not the data. These are used for user authentication. Once a user is authenticated, the labels on the data are used for filtering the data for that user's authorizations.
-- Christopher L Tubbs II http://gravatar.com/ctubbsii On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 5:02 PM, Michael Allen <[email protected]> wrote: > You got it. :) > > > On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 4:56 PM, Sujee Maniyam <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 1:40 PM, Michael Allen <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Sujee, I'm not exactly following you when you are talking about a >>> "security token". Are you maybe referring to the visibility labels within >>> the cell level security feature of Accumulo? >> >> >> yes, I meant the cell level 'visibility token' >> >> So I guess, that kind of answers my question :-) >> These are not super-secret tokens... just visibility levels. >> Admins grants the visibility levels per user , to control access >> >> >
