Create different user and assign role and privileges. Create a user like guest and grant select only to that user. That way user cannot modify data in specific keyspace or column family.
http://www.datastax.com/documentation/cql/3.0/cql/cql_reference/grant_r.html -Vivek On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 7:57 AM, Lu, Boying <boying...@emc.com> wrote: > Thanks a lot J > > > > But I think authorization and authentication do little help here. > > > > Once we allow an user to read the keyspace, how can we prevent him from > writing DB > > without Cassandra’s help? > > > > Is there any way to support ‘read-only’ some keyspace in Cassandra ? e.g. > set some specific strategy? > > > > Boying > > > > *From:* Vivek Mishra [mailto:mishra.v...@gmail.com] > *Sent:* 2014年7月17日 18:35 > *To:* user@cassandra.apache.org > *Subject:* Re: How to prevent writing to a Keyspace? > > > > Think about managing it via authorization and authentication support > > > > On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 4:00 PM, Lu, Boying <boying...@emc.com> wrote: > > Hi, All, > > > > I need to make a Cassandra keyspace to be read-only. > > Does anyone know how to do that? > > > > Thanks > > > > Boying > > > > >