KIP-1230 — Add config for file system permission
Accepted Kafka 4.2 Streams
Adds a Kafka Streams config allow.os.group.write.access (default false) that grants Unix group write permission on the state directory when enabled. Streams hard-coded state directory permissions to owner-only write, blocking multi-user or group-based deployments where shared write access is a legitimate operational requirement.
Details
| Author | Matthias J. Sax |
| Status | Accepted |
| Kafka Version | 4.2 |
| JIRA | KAFKA-19803 |
| Wiki | View on Apache Wiki |
| Created | 2025-10-16 |
| Last Modified | 2025-10-24 |
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