Restricting access to data

Denies permission on a resource, even if the privilege has been directly granted or inherited.

The command denies permission on a resource to the role. The user is denied access even if the privilege has been granted directly to the role or was inherited.
Attention: However, regardless of how you use RESTRICT, an account with the superuser role has full read/write access to the database. If your goal is that certain database administrators should not be able to see or modify data, do not assign superuser to those accounts. Instead, use RESTRICT to create database administrator accounts that are able to manage database resources and roles, but are unable to see or modify data.

Use to remove any restrictions the role has on the database resource.

Note: and only allow access to database resources that are .

Procedure

  1. Log in to CQLSH with a superuser role.
    cqlsh -u username
    CAUTION: Logging in with the default role cassandra may impact performance or fail. All requests including login are executed with consistency QUORUM.
  2. Create an account with login enabled, but do not give this db_admin account the superuser role.
    CREATE ROLE IF NOT EXISTS db_admin 
    WITH superuser = false
    AND login = true 
    AND password = 'anypasswordwilldo';
    Note: A password is required for internal accounts but not for LDAP or Kerberos.
  3. Restrict the role from accessing the data in the cycling keyspace:
    RESTRICT MODIFY, SELECT ON KEYSPACE cycling TO db_admin;
  4. Verify the restriction:
    SELECT role, resource, restricted FROM system_auth.role_permissions 
    WHERE role = 'db_admin';
    The results show the permissions denied to the role.
     role     | resource     | restricted
    ----------+--------------+----------------------
     db_admin | data/cycling | {'MODIFY', 'SELECT'}
    
    (1 rows)