diff --git a/superset/connectors/druid/views.py b/superset/connectors/druid/views.py
index 02b8cb4891ef6..d5401caf92986 100644
--- a/superset/connectors/druid/views.py
+++ b/superset/connectors/druid/views.py
@@ -11,13 +11,13 @@
 from flask import flash, Markup, redirect
 from flask_appbuilder import CompactCRUDMixin, expose
 from flask_appbuilder.models.sqla.interface import SQLAInterface
+from flask_appbuilder.security.decorators import has_access
 from flask_babel import gettext as __
 from flask_babel import lazy_gettext as _
 
 from superset import appbuilder, db, security_manager, utils
 from superset.connectors.base.views import DatasourceModelView
 from superset.connectors.connector_registry import ConnectorRegistry
-from superset.utils import has_access
 from superset.views.base import (
     BaseSupersetView, DatasourceFilter, DeleteMixin,
     get_datasource_exist_error_mgs, ListWidgetWithCheckboxes, SupersetModelView,
diff --git a/superset/connectors/sqla/views.py b/superset/connectors/sqla/views.py
index 16a218fd39e7b..e3fb14d07f254 100644
--- a/superset/connectors/sqla/views.py
+++ b/superset/connectors/sqla/views.py
@@ -9,13 +9,13 @@
 from flask_appbuilder import CompactCRUDMixin, expose
 from flask_appbuilder.actions import action
 from flask_appbuilder.models.sqla.interface import SQLAInterface
+from flask_appbuilder.security.decorators import has_access
 from flask_babel import gettext as __
 from flask_babel import lazy_gettext as _
 from past.builtins import basestring
 
 from superset import appbuilder, db, security_manager, utils
 from superset.connectors.base.views import DatasourceModelView
-from superset.utils import has_access
 from superset.views.base import (
     DatasourceFilter, DeleteMixin, get_datasource_exist_error_mgs,
     ListWidgetWithCheckboxes, SupersetModelView, YamlExportMixin,
diff --git a/superset/utils.py b/superset/utils.py
index 4163739bd4ae3..828111f6b934d 100644
--- a/superset/utils.py
+++ b/superset/utils.py
@@ -25,13 +25,7 @@
 import bleach
 import celery
 from dateutil.parser import parse
-from flask import flash, Markup, redirect, render_template, request, url_for
-from flask_appbuilder._compat import as_unicode
-from flask_appbuilder.const import (
-    FLAMSG_ERR_SEC_ACCESS_DENIED,
-    LOGMSG_ERR_SEC_ACCESS_DENIED,
-    PERMISSION_PREFIX,
-)
+from flask import flash, Markup, render_template
 from flask_babel import gettext as __
 from flask_cache import Cache
 import markdown as md
@@ -653,42 +647,6 @@ def get_email_address_list(address_string):
     return address_string
 
 
-def has_access(f):
-    """
-        Use this decorator to enable granular security permissions to your
-        methods. Permissions will be associated to a role, and roles are
-        associated to users.
-
-        By default the permission's name is the methods name.
-
-        Forked from the flask_appbuilder.security.decorators
-        TODO(bkyryliuk): contribute it back to FAB
-    """
-    if hasattr(f, '_permission_name'):
-        permission_str = f._permission_name
-    else:
-        permission_str = f.__name__
-
-    def wraps(self, *args, **kwargs):
-        permission_str = PERMISSION_PREFIX + f._permission_name
-        if self.appbuilder.sm.has_access(permission_str,
-                                         self.__class__.__name__):
-            return f(self, *args, **kwargs)
-        else:
-            logging.warning(
-                LOGMSG_ERR_SEC_ACCESS_DENIED.format(permission_str,
-                                                    self.__class__.__name__))
-            flash(as_unicode(FLAMSG_ERR_SEC_ACCESS_DENIED), 'danger')
-        # adds next arg to forward to the original path once user is logged in.
-        return redirect(
-            url_for(
-                self.appbuilder.sm.auth_view.__class__.__name__ + '.login',
-                next=request.full_path))
-
-    f._permission_name = permission_str
-    return functools.update_wrapper(wraps, f)
-
-
 def choicify(values):
     """Takes an iterable and makes an iterable of tuples with it"""
     return [(v, v) for v in values]
diff --git a/superset/views/core.py b/superset/views/core.py
index d155fa3189ada..91a420ae2886a 100755
--- a/superset/views/core.py
+++ b/superset/views/core.py
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 from flask_appbuilder import expose, SimpleFormView
 from flask_appbuilder.actions import action
 from flask_appbuilder.models.sqla.interface import SQLAInterface
-from flask_appbuilder.security.decorators import has_access_api
+from flask_appbuilder.security.decorators import has_access, has_access_api
 from flask_babel import gettext as __
 from flask_babel import lazy_gettext as _
 import pandas as pd
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
 from superset.models.sql_lab import Query
 from superset.sql_parse import SupersetQuery
 from superset.utils import (
-    has_access, merge_extra_filters, merge_request_params, QueryStatus,
+    merge_extra_filters, merge_request_params, QueryStatus,
 )
 from .base import (
     api, BaseSupersetView, CsvResponse, DeleteMixin,