Hello fellow devs, Currently JMX authentication is handled by using a password file. I was thinking we could make this a little more sophisticated. What I propose is, we plug JMX so that it uses the internal authenticator Cassandra has to authenticate the user. This will allow us to authenticate towards the Cassandra database. (No pesky password file) We can make this pluggable so that users could add their own authenticator and authorizer.
I have created a JIRA ticket on this as I have been working on a solution which would let us do precisely this. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-10091 What are your thoughts on this? Best Regards Jan Karlsson
