Zeppelin Default Notebook Permissions

[#1]

Hello All,

Does anyone know of a way to configure Zeppelin so that it will automatically set notebook permissions when creating a new note? We are using shiro to authenticate via AD and are fine tuning the groups permissions in that area, but I am curious to see if there's a way to have a note set default permissions to anything other than (*) for owner, read, write.

Environment: Our environment is currently on HDP-2.5.3.0-37 which houses Zeppelin release 0.6.2, we plan to upgrade to HDP 2.6+ in the coming months which houses Zeppelin release 0.7.0.

Target Outcome: When `user1` creates a note, the note permissions (available through the padlock symbol on the note page) will automatically populate to Owner: `user1`, Write: `none`, Read: `none`.

Many thanks in advance to any help,

Colton

[#2 · Accepted solution]

@Colton Rodgers

This issue was filed as an apache JIRA

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZEPPELIN-1657

And it was fixed with Zeppelin 0.7 release. Hence this feature is automatically supported in HDP-2.6 and when you upgrade, you will see that the notebooks automatically set to following permissions when shiro authentication is enabled

owner : user1 (creator of the notebook)

writer: ''

reader: ''

I dont think there is a way you can do it in HDP-2.5 without backporting relevant fixes.

[#3]

Is there a way to change this default so that notes are locked down as read-only for other users by default? The empty string evaluates as "everyone" in the Zeppelin notebook security...

[#4]

In order to make notes private, set the zeppelin.notebook.public property to false in zeppelin-site.xml.