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Francisco Guerrero commented on CASSANDRA-21546:
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My concern with the nested approach is that every {{IRoleManager}}
implementation that requires a default role initialization will need to parse
its parameters to extract the configuration and build the
{{IDefaultRoleInitializer}} instance; as opposed to just consuming the
available instance of {{IDefaultRoleInitializer}}. Curious if [~anaik] has any
take on either approach.
> 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
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> 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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