add environment variables to the simpleauth README
Project: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/cassandra/repo Commit: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/cassandra/commit/f42ec6d5 Tree: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/cassandra/tree/f42ec6d5 Diff: http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/cassandra/diff/f42ec6d5 Branch: refs/heads/cassandra-1.1 Commit: f42ec6d599abac9aa9a4e8cc2d1ae4a13abfa4fa Parents: 34060fc Author: Jonathan Ellis <jbel...@apache.org> Authored: Tue Mar 13 23:21:52 2012 -0500 Committer: Jonathan Ellis <jbel...@apache.org> Committed: Tue Mar 13 23:21:52 2012 -0500 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- examples/simple_authentication/README.txt | 11 +++++++++++ 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- http://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/cassandra/blob/f42ec6d5/examples/simple_authentication/README.txt ---------------------------------------------------------------------- diff --git a/examples/simple_authentication/README.txt b/examples/simple_authentication/README.txt index 3de5092..dcf9553 100644 --- a/examples/simple_authentication/README.txt +++ b/examples/simple_authentication/README.txt @@ -10,5 +10,16 @@ You can then set the authenticator and authority properties in cassandra.yaml to use those classes. See the two configuration files access.properties and passwd.properties to configure the authorized users and permissions. +When starting cassandra, you need to specify the location of the passwd.properties +and access.properties files by adding JVM args similar to the following either +in cassandra-env.sh or as commandline arguments: + + -Dpasswd.properties=conf/passwd.properties + -Daccess.properties=conf/access.properties + +For example, you might invoke cassandra as follows: + + bin/cassandra -f -Dpasswd.properties=conf/passwd.properties -Daccess.properties=conf/access.properties + Please note that the code in this directory is for demonstration purposes. In particular, it does not provide a high level of security.