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Managing Kafka User Permissions

Scenario

For clusters with Kerberos authentication enabled, using Kafka requires relevant permissions. MRS clusters can grant the use permission of Kafka to different users.

Table 1 lists the default Kafka user groups.

Kafka supports two types of authentication plug-ins: Kafka open source authentication plug-in and Ranger authentication plug-in.

This section describes the user permission management based on the Kafka open source authentication plug-in. For details about how to use the Ranger authentication plug-in, see Adding a Ranger Access Permission Policy for Kafka.

Table 1 Default Kafka user groups

User Group

Description

kafkaadmin

Kafka administrator group. Users in this group have the permissions to create, delete, read, and write all topics, and authorize other users.

kafkasuperuser

Kafka super user group. Users in this group have the permissions to read and write all topics.

kafka

Kafka common user group. Users in this group can access a topic only when they are granted with the read and write permissions of the topic by a user in the kafkaadmin group.

Prerequisites

  • You have installed the Kafka client.
  • A user in the kafkaadmin group, for example admin, has been prepared.

Procedure

  1. Log in to FusionInsight Manager. For details, see Accessing FusionInsight Manager. Choose Cluster> Services > ZooKeeper > Instance.
  2. View the IP addresses of the ZooKeeper role instance.

    Record the IP address of any ZooKeeper instance.

  3. Prepare the client based on service requirements. Log in to the node where the client is installed. For details, see Using an MRS Client.
  4. Run the following command to switch to the client installation directory, for example, /opt/client/Kafka/kafka/bin.

    cd /opt/client/Kafka/kafka/bin

  5. Run the following command to configure environment variables:

    source /opt/client/bigdata_env

  6. Run the following command to authenticate the user(skip this step in normal mode):

    kinit Component service user

  7. he following lists the common kafka-acl.sh commands used for user authorization:

    • View the permission control list of a topic:

      ./kafka-acls.sh --authorizer-properties zookeeper.connect=<Service IP address of any ZooKeeper node:2181/kafka > --list --topic <Topic name>

      ./kafka-acls.sh --bootstrap-server <IP address of the Kafkacluster:21007> --command-config ../config/client.properties --list --topic <topic name>

    • Add the Producer permission for a user:

      ./kafka-acls.sh --authorizer-properties zookeeper.connect=<Service IP address of any ZooKeeper node:2181/kafka > --add --allow-principal User:<Username> --producer --topic <Topic name>

      ./kafka-acls.sh --bootstrap-server <IP address of the Kafkacluster:21007> --command-config ../config/client.properties --add --allow-principal User:<username> --producer --topic <topic name>

    • Assign the Producer permission to a user in batches.

      ./kafka-acls.sh --authorizer-properties zookeeper.connect=<Service IP address of any ZooKeeper node:2181/kafka > --add --allow-principal User:<Username> --producer --topic <Topic name> --resource-pattern-type prefixed

      ./kafka-acls.sh --bootstrap-server <IP address of the Kafkacluster:21007> --command-config ../config/client.properties --add --allow-principal User:<username> --producer --topic <topic name>--resource-pattern-type prefixed

    • Remove the Producer permission from a user:

      ./kafka-acls.sh --authorizer-properties zookeeper.connect=<Service IP address of any ZooKeeper node:2181/kafka > --remove --allow-principal User:<Username> --producer --topic <Topic name>

      ./kafka-acls.sh --bootstrap-server <IP address of the Kafkacluster:21007> --command-config ../config/client.properties --remove --allow-principal User:<username> --producer --topic <topic name>

    • Delete the Producer permission of a user in batches:

      ./kafka-acls.sh --authorizer-properties zookeeper.connect=<Service IP address of any ZooKeeper node:2181/kafka > --remove --allow-principal User:<Username> --producer --topic <Topic name> --resource-pattern-type prefixed

      ./kafka-acls.sh --bootstrap-server <IP address of the Kafkacluster:21007> --command-config ../config/client.properties --remove --allow-principal User:<username> --producer --topic <topic name>--resource-pattern-type prefixed

    • Add the Consumer permission for a user:

      ./kafka-acls.sh --authorizer-properties zookeeper.connect=<Service IP address of any ZooKeeper node:2181/kafka > --add --allow-principal User:<Username> --consumer --topic <Topicname> --group <Consumer group name>

      ./kafka-acls.sh --bootstrap-server <IP address of the Kafkacluster:21007> --command-config ../config/client.properties --add --allow-principal User:<username> --consumer --topic <topicname> --group <consumer group name>

    • Add consumer permissions to a user in batches:

      ./kafka-acls.sh --authorizer-properties zookeeper.connect=<Service IP address of any ZooKeeper node:2181/kafka > --add --allow-principal User:<Username> --consumer --topic <Topic name> --group <Consumer group name> --resource-pattern-type prefixed

      ./kafka-acls.sh --bootstrap-server <IP address of the Kafkacluster:21007> --command-config ../config/client.properties --add --allow-principal User:<username> --consumer --topic <topicname> --group <consumer group name> --resource-pattern-type prefixed

    • Remove the consumer permission from a user:

      ./kafka-acls.sh --authorizer-properties zookeeper.connect=<Service IP address of any ZooKeeper node:2181/kafka > --remove --allow-principal User:<Username> --consumer --topic <Topic name> --group <Consumer group name>

      ./kafka-acls.sh --bootstrap-server <IP address of the Kafkacluster:21007> --command-config ../config/client.properties --remove --allow-principal User:<username> --consumer --topic <topic name> --group <consumer group name>

    • Delete the consumer permission of a user in batches:

      ./kafka-acls.sh --authorizer-properties zookeeper.connect=<Service IP address of any ZooKeeper node:2181/kafka > --remove --allow-principal User:<Username> --consumer --topic <Topic name> --group <Consumer group name> --resource-pattern-type prefixed

      ./kafka-acls.sh --bootstrap-server <IP address of the Kafkacluster:21007> --command-config ../config/client.properties --remove --allow-principal User:<username> --consumer --topic <topicname> --group <consumer group name> --resource-pattern-type prefixed

Parent topic: Using Kafka