diff --git a/hadoop-ozone/common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/security/acl/OzoneAccessAuthorizer.java b/hadoop-ozone/common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/security/acl/OzoneAccessAuthorizer.java
index 1f105a03ad46..abd4cd6f6d25 100644
--- a/hadoop-ozone/common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/security/acl/OzoneAccessAuthorizer.java
+++ b/hadoop-ozone/common/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/security/acl/OzoneAccessAuthorizer.java
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/**
+/*
  * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
  * contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with this
  * work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 import org.apache.hadoop.ozone.om.exceptions.OMException;
 
 /**
- * Default implementation for {@link IAccessAuthorizer}.
+ * No-op implementation for {@link IAccessAuthorizer}, allows everything.
  * */
 public class OzoneAccessAuthorizer implements IAccessAuthorizer {
 
@@ -35,4 +35,9 @@ public boolean checkAccess(IOzoneObj ozoneObject, RequestContext context)
       throws OMException {
     return true;
   }
+
+  @Override
+  public boolean isNative() {
+    return true;
+  }
 }
diff --git a/hadoop-ozone/ozone-manager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/om/OzoneManager.java b/hadoop-ozone/ozone-manager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/om/OzoneManager.java
index afbe980eeb6e..626ff8da6d9a 100644
--- a/hadoop-ozone/ozone-manager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/om/OzoneManager.java
+++ b/hadoop-ozone/ozone-manager/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/ozone/om/OzoneManager.java
@@ -875,7 +875,13 @@ private void instantiateServices(boolean withNewSnapshot) throws IOException {
     prefixManager = new PrefixManagerImpl(this, metadataManager, isRatisEnabled);
     keyManager = new KeyManagerImpl(this, scmClient, configuration,
         perfMetrics);
-    accessAuthorizer = OzoneAuthorizerFactory.forOM(this);
+    // If authorizer is not initialized or the authorizer is Native
+    // re-initialize the authorizer, else for non-native authorizer
+    // like ranger we can reuse previous value if it is initialized
+    if (null == accessAuthorizer || accessAuthorizer.isNative()) {
+      accessAuthorizer = OzoneAuthorizerFactory.forOM(this);
+    }
+
     omMetadataReader = new OmMetadataReader(keyManager, prefixManager,
         this, LOG, AUDIT, metrics, accessAuthorizer);
     // Active DB's OmMetadataReader instance does not need to be reference