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Michael Shuler commented on CASSANDRA-7653:
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Awesome! I didn't see any tests in a quick look at the patch, and I don't
think there is much (any?) auth unit tests done, as most of that is done in
dtest - https://github.com/riptano/cassandra-dtest/blob/master/auth_test.py
[~enigmacurry] this will be a feature addition to keep an eye on. If someone
wants to add a patch to dtest auth_test, feel free to post that as a pull
request on the dtest github and link back to this ticket.
> Add role based access control to Cassandra
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> Key: CASSANDRA-7653
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-7653
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: Core
> Reporter: Mike Adamson
> Fix For: 3.0
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> Attachments: 7653.patch
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> The current authentication model supports granting permissions to individual
> users. While this is OK for small or medium organizations wanting to
> implement authorization, it does not work well in large organizations because
> of the overhead of having to maintain the permissions for each user.
> Introducing roles into the authentication model would allow sets of
> permissions to be controlled in one place as a role and then the role granted
> to users. Roles should also be able to be granted to other roles to allow
> hierarchical sets of permissions to be built up.
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