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Stu Hood commented on CASSANDRA-1447: ------------------------------------- >From Peter Nerg on CASSANDRA-1474: {quote} When running the SimpleAuthenticator in MD5 mode it will try to compare the plain text password with a MD5 digest from the passwd.properties file. However the password in the property file is already a MD5 digest thus it's now digested twice. Code snippet " case MD5: authenticated = MessageDigest.isEqual(password.getBytes(), MessageDigest.getInstance("MD5").digest(props.getProperty(username).getBytes())); break; " {quote} > SimpleAuthenticator MD5 support > ------------------------------- > > Key: CASSANDRA-1447 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-1447 > Project: Cassandra > Issue Type: Bug > Reporter: Stu Hood > Priority: Minor > Fix For: 0.7.0 > > > ...is broken, or not working as expected. Needs a look before 0.7.0. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.