diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/web/oauth2/AccessTokenProvider.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/web/oauth2/AccessTokenProvider.java
index 99e153d7b3a..3189f940198 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/web/oauth2/AccessTokenProvider.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/web/oauth2/AccessTokenProvider.java
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ public abstract class AccessTokenProvider implements Configurable {
    * 
    * @return Access token to be added to connection header.
    */
-  abstract String getAccessToken() throws IOException;
+  public abstract String getAccessToken() throws IOException;
 
   /**
    * Return the conf.
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/web/oauth2/CredentialBasedAccessTokenProvider.java b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/web/oauth2/CredentialBasedAccessTokenProvider.java
index c058e05b93e..625d9359e29 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/web/oauth2/CredentialBasedAccessTokenProvider.java
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs-client/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/web/oauth2/CredentialBasedAccessTokenProvider.java
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ public abstract class CredentialBasedAccessTokenProvider
     this.timer = new AccessTokenTimer(timer);
   }
   
-  abstract String getCredential();
+  public abstract String getCredential();
 
   @Override
   public void setConf(Configuration conf) {
diff --git a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
index cedf1a741ab..e62953e552c 100644
--- a/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt
@@ -1003,6 +1003,10 @@ Release 2.8.0 - UNRELEASED
     HDFS-8971. Remove guards when calling LOG.debug() and LOG.trace() in client
     package. (Mingliang Liu via wheat9)
 
+    HDFS-9175. Change scope of 'AccessTokenProvider.getAccessToken()' and
+    'CredentialBasedAccessTokenProvider.getCredential()' abstract methods to
+    public (Santhosh Nayak via cnauroth)
+
   OPTIMIZATIONS
 
     HDFS-8026. Trace FSOutputSummer#writeChecksumChunks rather than