Enabling and disabling Kerberos security

Turn Kerberos authorization on and off by changing the authenticator in cassandra.yaml.

After setting up Kerberos as described above, you can turn it on and off by changing the authenticator in the cassandra.yaml file:

On: com.datastax.bdp.cassandra.auth.KerberosAuthenticator
Off: any other authenticator

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