Re: user / password authentication advice

2013-12-12 Thread John Sanda
You could use CassandraAuthorizer and PaaswordAuthenticator which ships with Cassandra. See this article[1] for a good overview. [1] http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/a-quick-tour-of-internal-authentication-and-authorization-security-in-datastax-enterprise-and-apache-cassandra On Thursday, Decembe

Re: user / password authentication advice

2013-12-11 Thread onlinespending
OK, thanks for getting me going in the right direction. I imagine most people would store password and tokenized authentication information in a single table, using the username (e.g. email address) as the key? On Dec 11, 2013, at 10:44 PM, Janne Jalkanen wrote: > > Hi! > > You're right, th

Re: user / password authentication advice

2013-12-11 Thread Janne Jalkanen
Hi! You're right, this isn't really Cassandra-specific. Most languages/web frameworks have their own way of doing user authentication, and then you just typically write a plugin that just stores whatever data the system needs in Cassandra. For example, if you're using Java (or Scala or Groovy

Re: user / password authentication advice

2013-12-11 Thread Aaron Morton
Not sure if you are asking about the authentication & authorisation in cassandra or how to implemented the same using cassandra. info on the cassandra authentication and authorisation is here http://www.datastax.com/documentation/cassandra/2.0/webhelp/index.html#cassandra/security/securityTOC.h