System tables for authentication and authorization

Internal authentication and authorization information is stored in the following Cassandra tables:

system_auth.roles

Table that stores the role name, whether the role can be used for login, whether the role is a superuser, what other roles the role may be a member of, and a bcrypt salted hash password for the role.

system_auth.role_members

Table that stores the roles and role members.

system_auth.role_permissions

Table that stores the role, a resource (keyspace, table), and the permission that the role has to access the resource.

system_auth.recqlshSourceole_permissons_index

Table that stores the role and a resource that the role has a set permission.

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