LDAP Authentication

DSE 5.0 introduced a DSE Unified Authenticator. The DSE Authenticator can be used for LDAP authentication by configuring the cluster to use a given username/password for authentication to the DSE cluster. DSEs earlier than 5.0 are configured similarly but use LdapAuthenticator on the DSE cluster.

Background

Given
a running dse cluster with ldap authentication enabled
And
the following example:
require 'dse'

begin
  cluster = Dse.cluster(
              username: ENV['USERNAME'],
              password: ENV['PASSWORD']
            )
  puts "authentication successful"
rescue Cassandra::Errors::AuthenticationError => e
  puts "#{e.class.name}: #{e.message}"
  puts "authentication failed"
else
  cluster.close
end

Authenticating with correct credentials

When
it is executed with a valid username and password in the environment
Then
its output should contain:
authentication successful

Authenticating with incorrect credentials

When
it is executed with an invalid username and password in the environment
Then
its output should contain:
authentication failed