access.properties and passwd.properties are only used by the example implementations, SimpleAuthenticator and SimpleAuthority. Your own implementation (which requires a custom class) certainly does not have to use these, it can use any other source to make the authn/authz decision.
On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 4:07 PM, Dwight Smith <dwight.sm...@genesyslab.com>wrote: > The datastax documentation concisely describes how to configure and assure > that the properties are used in client access. Question is this: if using > the thrift api login, does C* use the Authentication class to determine > access privileges based on the access/passwd properties?**** > > ** ** > > These questions are related to 1.1.3.**** > > ** ** > > Thanks**** > -- Tyler Hobbs DataStax <http://datastax.com/>
