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Philip Thompson edited comment on CASSANDRA-12294 at 7/26/16 7:03 PM: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- [~beobal], am I right in assuming that a change this large should probably only go into trunk, as far as being merged into tree? Or, if it's just a new authorizer, will 2.2.x be fine? was (Author: philipthompson): [~beobal], am I right in assuming that a change this large should probably only go into trunk, as far as being merged into tree? > LDAP Authentication > ------------------- > > Key: CASSANDRA-12294 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-12294 > Project: Cassandra > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: Distributed Metadata > Reporter: Daniel Kleviansky > Assignee: Daniel Kleviansky > Priority: Minor > Labels: security > Fix For: 2.2.x, 3.x > > > Addition of an LDAP authentication plugin, in tree, along side the default > authenticator, so that Cassandra can leverage existing LDAP-speaking servers > to manage user logins. > DSE offers this: [Enabling LDAP authentication | > https://docs.datastax.com/en/datastax_enterprise/4.6/datastax_enterprise/sec/secLdapEnabling.html], > but does not exist in vanilla C* as far as I can tell. > Ideally would like to introduce this as part of the 2.2.x branch, as this is > what is currently running in client production environment, and where it is > needed at the moment. > Would aim for support of at least Microsoft Active Directory running on > Windows Server 2012. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)