FYI the PR is https://github.com/apache/hbase/pull/4885 and https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/HBASE-27493.
the proposal seems to be, should we allow cloning snapshot to any namespace if they're not the global admin. logically, it should be fine because they're the admin for the namespace, and should be able to do whatever within that namespace. Thanks, Stephen On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 11:38 AM Szabolcs Bukros <szabo...@cloudera.com.invalid> wrote: > > Hi Everyone, > > Creating a snapshot requires table admin permissions. But cloning it > requires global admin permissions unless the user owns the snapshot and > wants to recreate the original table the snapshot was based on using the > same table name. This puts unnecessary load on the few users having global > admin permissions on the cluster. I would like to relax this rule a bit and > allow the owner of the snapshot to clone it into any namespace where they > have admin permissions regardless of the table name used. > > Please let me know what you think about this proposal. And if you find it > acceptable which branch do you think this could land on. > > Thanks, > Szabolcs Bukros
