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Sam Tunnicliffe updated CASSANDRA-7653: --------------------------------------- Issue Type: Sub-task (was: New Feature) Parent: CASSANDRA-8394 > Add role based access control to Cassandra > ------------------------------------------ > > Key: CASSANDRA-7653 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-7653 > Project: Cassandra > Issue Type: Sub-task > Components: Core > Reporter: Mike Adamson > Assignee: Sam Tunnicliffe > Labels: docs-impacting, security > Fix For: 3.0 > > Attachments: 7653.patch, CQLSmokeTest.java, cql_smoke_test.py > > > The current authentication model supports granting permissions to individual > users. While this is OK for small or medium organizations wanting to > implement authorization, it does not work well in large organizations because > of the overhead of having to maintain the permissions for each user. > Introducing roles into the authentication model would allow sets of > permissions to be controlled in one place as a role and then the role granted > to users. Roles should also be able to be granted to other roles to allow > hierarchical sets of permissions to be built up. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)