Hi Derar,

The support for wildcards is limited to `*` at this point. Sorry for the
confusion. If you're interested to submit a PR to clarify the
documentation, that would be great. :)

Ismael

On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 7:38 PM, Derar Alassi <derar.ala...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Although the documentation mentions that one can use wildcards with topic
> ACLs, I couldn't get that to work. Essentially, I want to set an Allow
> Read/Write ACL on topics com.domain.xyz.* to a certain user. This would
> give this user Read/Write access to topics com.domain.xyz.abc and
> com.domain.xyz.def .
>
> I set an ACL using this command:
> ./kafka-acls.sh --authorizer-properties zookeeper.connect=<connection-str>
> --add --allow-principal User:"user01"   --topic com.domain.xyz.* --group
> group01 --operation read
>
> When I try to consume from the topic com.domain.xyz.abc  using the same
> user ID and group, I get NOT_AUTHORIZED error.
>
> Anything I am missing?
>
> Thanks,
> Derar
>

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