Steve, Looking at the Cassandra docs it appears as though this shouldn't be too hard to implement, as it should simply involve adding a login method to the cascal session template. I'll make a ticket in github to track this , I hope that I have a little more time in the next few days to investigate further. Cheers.
Chris On Wednesday, June 30, 2010, Steve Lihn <stevel...@gmail.com> wrote: > Chris, > What I have in mind is to use SimpleAuthenticator in conjuction with the > access.properties and passwd.properties. > This use case is actually somewhat personal. I have servers in the AWS cloud, > during development and testing, I may connect from home or wireless points on > the road. > I don't want to be bothered with opening up the firewall based on the IP I > have at that moment. So I am thinking to open up 9160 and use authentication > to block unauthorized writes, which may corrupt the database. But I couldn't > find any info on how to use SimpleAuthenticator in the scala client. > > Steve > > On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Chris Shorrock <ch...@shorrockin.com> wrote: > > Hey Steve, > What type of authentication are you looking to do? Cassandra itself doesn't, > as far as I know, support any sort of user setup or authentication so it's on > the onus of the application developer to lock things down appropriately. > > > Chris > > On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Steve Lihn <stevel...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Searching how to use simple authentication in cascal. Couldn't find anything > in API docs. Does anybody know how to do it? > > Thanks, > Steve > > > >
