Configuring Column Family Permissions

This topic describes configuring column family permissions for a table.

Prerequisites

  • A table with a column family must be available for you to configure column family permissions.
  • You must have the permissions to configure column families on the table.

About this task

Follow the steps given below to create or edit column family permissions on a table.

Procedure

  1. Log on to the Data Fabric UI.
  2. Click the All resources icon on the left pane, click the table view icon.
  3. Select the Resource details check box.
  4. In the tabular list of fabrics, click the down arrow for the fabric that contains the table on which you want to create or edit column family permissions.
  5. Click the table name seen under Resource Name.
    The Table details view opens.
  6. Select the Column families tab. On this tab, you can view all column families created on the table.
  7. Perform one of the following:
    • Click the ellipsis () in the Action column of the column family for which you want to create or edit column family permissions.
    • Click the name of the column family for which you want to create or edit column family permissions. The Column family details view opens. Then, click the ellipsis ().
  8. Click Edit.
    The column family wizard opens.
  9. Click Manage column permissions.
    The column family wizard opens the Manage column permissions window. From this window, you can create columns and column-specific user access controls.
  10. Enter the column name.
  11. Define user access controls for your column.
    The wizard automatically creates a default column Access control entry. You can edit the default entry, or delete it with the action button (trash can).
    1. Select the user Type.
    2. Enter the user Name.
    3. Select the permissions you want the user to have:
      • Read: The user has read permissiosn on the column.
      • Write: The user has write permissions on the column.
      • Append: The user has append permissions on the column.
    4. (Optional) Click Add to create another user access control for the column.
  12. (Optional) Click Add column permissions to define user access controls for another column.
  13. Click Apply.

Results

The permissions are applied to the column family with the defined user access controls on the columns.