Authenticating using DSE Utilities
Provide credentials for internal or LDAP pass-through authentication when using DataStax Enterprise (DSE) and native utilities to connect to an authentication-enabled cluster.
The following utilities do not require credentials, even when both database and Java Management Extensions (JMX) authentication are enabled:
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dse -v
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When authorization is also enabled, use the |
- Providing credentials on command line
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Use switches to provide a username and password from the command line.
- Providing credentials in a file
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Create a file that contains credentials.
- Providing credentials using environment variable
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For
dse client-tool,dse advrep, andSparkcommands, provide credentials using environment variables. - Providing credentials for CQLSH
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To start a
CQLshell (cqlsh) session with a node that has DataStax Enterprise authentication enabled, provide credentials usingclioptions or specifying in thecqlshrcfile.
