GitHub user omkreddy opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/3924
KAFKA-5547: Return TOPIC_AUTHORIZATION_FAILED error if no describe access for topics You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/omkreddy/kafka KAFKA-5547-TOPIC-AUTHRO Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/3924.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 #3924 ---- commit ea7d4e795aba6059b61dc518f38ed11d81b38c09 Author: Manikumar Reddy <manikumar.re...@gmail.com> Date: 2017-09-15T16:22:57Z KAFKA-5547: Return TOPIC_AUTHORIZATION_FAILED error if no describe access for topics ---- ---