Configuring and using internal authentication
Internal authentication is based on Cassandra-controlled login accounts and passwords.
Like object permission management that uses internal authorization, internal authentication is based on Cassandra-controlled login accounts and passwords. Internal authentication is supported on the following clients when you provide a user name and password to start up the client:
- Astyanax
- cassandra-cli
- cqlsh
- DataStax Java and C# drivers
- Hector
- pycassa
Internal authentication stores user names and bcrypt-hashed passwords in the system_auth.credentials table.
Limitations
Internal authentication is not supported in Solr, the dsetool, and Hadoop utilities.