GitHub user vahidhashemian opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/3832
KAFKA-5854: (WIP) Handle SASL authentication failures as non-retriable exceptions in clients This PR depends on the in progress [PR for KAFKA-4764](https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/3708). You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/vahidhashemian/kafka KAFKA-5854 Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/3832.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #3832 ---- commit a7eca1ecb0d56004559193c716ec83601c5e95f4 Author: Rajini Sivaram <rajinisiva...@googlemail.com> Date: 2017-08-21T18:59:43Z KAFKA-4764: Wrap SASL tokens in Kafka headers to improve diagnostics commit e8cc0e663379c75447d8ec894a41b150b68d1f29 Author: Vahid Hashemian <vahidhashem...@us.ibm.com> Date: 2017-09-11T23:15:22Z KAFKA-5854: (WIP) Handle SASL authentication failures as non-retriable exceptions in clients ---- ---