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Stefan Miklosovic commented on CASSANDRA-16456: ----------------------------------------------- The answer to your very last question is yes. Because you could have an auth_provider implementation which is still "username and password-based" but it may differ internally. But we should still pass username / password to it and it is up to an implementation if it uses these flags or it will just ignore them. The implementation may, for example, detect that username / password does not make any sense to it and it may act on it (throwing exception or logging) but it is up to it solely what it does with it. Username and password just happened to be the most commonly used options but they are "just options", as any other one and they should passed to that impl. > Add Plugin Support for CQLSH > ---------------------------- > > Key: CASSANDRA-16456 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-16456 > Project: Cassandra > Issue Type: New Feature > Components: Tool/cqlsh > Reporter: Brian Houser > Assignee: Brian Houser > Priority: Normal > Labels: gsoc2021, mentor > Time Spent: 2h 50m > Remaining Estimate: 0h > > Currently the Cassandra drivers offer a plugin authenticator architecture for > the support of different authentication methods. This has been leveraged to > provide support for LDAP, Kerberos, and Sigv4 authentication. Unfortunately, > cqlsh, the included CLI tool, does not offer such support. Switching to a new > enhanced authentication scheme thus means being cut off from using cqlsh in > normal operation. > We should have a means of using the same plugins and authentication providers > as the Python Cassandra driver. > Here's a link to an initial draft of > [CEP|https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_G-OZCAEmDyuQuAN2wQUYUtZBEJpMkHWnkYELLhqvKc/edit?usp=sharing]. -- This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.20.7#820007) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: commits-unsubscr...@cassandra.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: commits-h...@cassandra.apache.org