Learning Apache Cassandra - Second Edition

Authentication with cqlsh

Now that we've enabled authentication on our development cluster, we will need to reconnect our cqlsh session with a username and password. By default, Cassandra has a superuser account whose username and password are both cassandra, so we can use that:

$ cqlsh -u cassandra -p cassandra 

In a production cluster, of course, we would not want to have a superuser account with such an easily guessable password; however, for our purposes, this will work fine.