Enabling and disabling Kerberos security
Turn Kerberos authorization on and off by changing the authenticator in cassandra.yaml.
After setting up Kerberos users, you can turn Kerberos authorization on and off by changing the authenticator in the cassandra.yaml file:
- On: com.datastax.bdp.cassandra.auth.KerberosAuthenticator
- Off: any other authenticator
The location of the
cassandra.yaml file depends on
the type of installation:
Package installations | /etc/dse/cassandra/cassandra.yaml |
Tarball installations | install_location/resources/cassandra/conf/cassandra.yaml |