October 2018
Beginner to intermediate
348 pages
10h
English
Apache Cassandra allows for user authentication to be set up. Similar to other Cassandra components, users and their (encrypted) credentials are stored in a table inside the cluster. Client connections are required to provide valid username/password combinations before being allowed access to the cluster. To enable this functionality, simply change the authenticator property in the cassandra.yaml file from its default (AllowAllAuthenticator) to PasswordAuthenticator:
authenticator: PasswordAuthenticator