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Stefan Miklosovic commented on CASSANDRA-21546:
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hi [~anaik] , is this ready for the review? I see you have created the PR 
already. 

> Support pluggable default role initialization (avoid hardcoded superuser 
> password)
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>                 Key: CASSANDRA-21546
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-21546
>             Project: Apache Cassandra
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: Aparna Naik
>            Assignee: Aparna Naik
>            Priority: Normal
>
> Cassandra's first-boot bootstrap hardcodes the creation of a cassandra 
> superuser role with a default password (cassandra). Every new cluster starts 
> with this guessable credential exposed until an operator manually rotates or 
> drops it, and deployments that already use mutual TLS have no way to 
> bootstrap a superuser identity without also creating this password-based one. 
> This ticket will make the default role bootstrap pluggable via a new 
> IDefaultRoleInitializer interface and default_role_initializer config option. 
> The existing password-based behavior will be the default implementation for 
> backward compatibility, and it will add a MutualTlsDefaultRoleInitializer 
> that instead maps a client certificate identity to the superuser role, so no 
> password credential needs to exist at all.



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