According to the wiki, it is not included in the binary distribution. http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/SimpleAuthenticator
2012/3/14 Xaero S <xaeros...@gmail.com>: > > > Hi, > > When i start Cassandra 1.0.7 with authentication enabled. i get this > following exception - > > org.apache.cassandra.config.ConfigurationException: Unable to find > authenticator class 'org.apache.cassandra.auth.SimpleAuthenticator' > at > org.apache.cassandra.utils.FBUtilities.classForName(FBUtilities.java:574) > at > org.apache.cassandra.utils.FBUtilities.construct(FBUtilities.java:586) > at > org.apache.cassandra.config.DatabaseDescriptor.<clinit>(DatabaseDescriptor.java:189) > at > org.apache.cassandra.service.AbstractCassandraDaemon.setup(AbstractCassandraDaemon.java:131) > at > org.apache.cassandra.service.AbstractCassandraDaemon.activate(AbstractCassandraDaemon.java:356) > at > org.apache.cassandra.thrift.CassandraDaemon.main(CassandraDaemon.java:107) > Unable to find authenticator class > 'org.apache.cassandra.auth.SimpleAuthenticator' > Fatal configuration error; unable to start server. See log for stacktrace. > > When i looked inside the apache-cassandra-1.0.7.jar of the lib directory, i > do not find the above class. So it looks like this is the right error. Can > someone help resolve this? I could not find a corresponding issue reported > on jira for this version. Has this been resolved in the next version? > > >
