GitHub user rajinisivaram opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/3928
KAFKA-5947: Handle authentication failure in admin client, txn producer 1. Raise AuthenticationException for authentication failures in admin client 2. Handle AuthenticationException as a fatal error for transactional producer 3. Add comments to authentication exceptions You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/rajinisivaram/kafka KAFKA-5947-auth-failure Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/kafka/pull/3928.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 #3928 ---- commit 764f38785f83a95f840c398c9ef2f557e67fe07a Author: Rajini Sivaram <rajinisiva...@googlemail.com> Date: 2017-09-20T15:27:23Z KAFKA-5947: Handle authentication exceptions in admin client and txn producer ---- ---