You could limit the access to zookeeper, with kerberos, or with a firewall.
For example to only allow connections to zookeeper from the cluster itself,
this way you need to access those machines to be able to set acls. The
create permission is used for creating topics I think, there is no acl to
limit setting acl's.

On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 4:17 PM Shrikant Patel <spa...@pdxinc.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> How can I restrict who can modify ACLs for kafka cluster? Anyone can use
> kafka-acls cli to modify the acl.
>
> I added superuser and thought that when we are running the kafka-acls, it
> validates that only spatel user can run this command. So what prevents user
> on n\w trying to modify ACLs.
>
> authorizer.class.name=kafka.security.auth.SimpleAclAuthorizer
> super.users=User:CN=spatel-lt.nhsrx.com,OU=arch,O=pdx inc,L=fort
> worth,ST=tx,C=us
>
> Current ACLs for resource `Cluster:kafka-cluster`:
>         User:CN=spatel-lt,OU=arch,O=pdx inc,L=fort worth,ST=tx,C=us has
> Allow permission for operations: Create from hosts: *
>
> Am I missing anything???
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Shri
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