Building Data Streaming Applications with Apache Kafka

List ACLs

You can also list all the ACLs applied on following resources:

1. For example, if you want to see all ACLs applied in the topic Packt, you can do it using the following command:

kafka-acls.sh --authorizer kafka.security.auth.SimpleAclAuthorizer --authorizer-properties zookeeper.connect=localhost:2181 --list --topic Packt

2. Producer and consumer ACL: Adding a user as the producer or consumer is a very common ACL used in Kafka. If you want to add user Chanchal as a producer for topic Packt, it can be done using the following simple command:

kafka-acls --authorizer-properties zookeeper.connect=localhost:2181\
   --add --allow-principal User:Chanchal \
   --producer --topic Packt

3. To add a consumer ACL where Manish will act as the consumer ...