title: Give accumulo user permissions for all tables
body: <p>I am trying to grant read/write/bulkimport table permissions to a newly created user account. I have not had any success using wild cards in accumulo shell to grant permissions to all tables at once.</p>
  
  <p><strong>I have tried the following grant command variants:</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>grant Table.READ -t * ...
  grant Table.READ -t '*' ...
  grant Table.READ -t \\* ...
  grant Table.READ -p * ...
  grant Table.READ -p so_* ...
  grant Table.* ...
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>For -t/-p wildcards, I get either one of the following errors:</strong><br/>
  <em>WARN : No tables found that match your criteria</em><br/>
  <em>ERROR: java.util.regex.PatternSyntaxException: Dangling meta character '*' near index 0</em><br/>
  <em>ERROR: org.apache.accumulo.core.client.TableNotFoundException: Table * does not exist</em></p>
  
  <p><strong>For Table.*, I get:</strong><br/>
  <em>ERROR: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No such table permission</em></p>
  
  <p>I have a lot of tables to grant permissions for, so I am really hoping wildcards are an option.</p>