Authentication

Cassandra’s binary protocol supports SASL-based authentication. To enable it, define an auth-provider section in the configuration

datastax-java-driver {
  advanced.auth-provider {
    class = PlainTextAuthProvider
    username = cassandra
    password = cassandra
  }
}

Authentication must be configured before opening a session, it cannot be changed at runtime.

PlainTextAuthProvider is provided out of the box, for simple username/password authentication (intended to work with the server-side PasswordAuthenticator). The credentials can be changed at runtime, they will be used for new connection attempts once the configuration gets reloaded.

You can also write your own provider; it must implement AuthProvider and declare a public constructor with a DriverContext argument.