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import com.google.common.annotations.VisibleForTesting;
  * from each RecordReader. An internal RegionScanner is used to execute the {@link Scan} obtained
  * from the user.
  * <p>
- * HBase owns all the data and snapshot files on the filesystem. Only the HBase user can read from
- * snapshot files and data files. HBase also enforces security because all the requests are handled
- * by the server layer, and the user cannot read from the data files directly.
+ * HBase owns all the data and snapshot files on the filesystem. Only the 'hbase' user can read from
+ * snapshot files and data files.
  * To read from snapshot files directly from the file system, the user who is running the MR job
  * must have sufficient permissions to access snapshot and reference files.
  * This means that to run mapreduce over snapshot files, the MR job has to be run as the HBase
