Hi, We have a custom authenticator that works well with Cassandra 1.1.5. When upgrading to C* 1.2.5, authentication failed. Turn out that in ClientState.login, we make a call to Auth.isExistingUser(user.getName()) if the AuthenticatedUser is not Anonymous user. This isExistingUser method does a query on system_auth.users and if it cannot find the name there, throw an exception.
If our authentication model involves exchanging data on the fly and not relying on pre-created users, how do we bypass this check? Should we add a method on IAuthenticator to specify whether user look-up is needed or not? Bao
