So we would create a new permission class for JMX? On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 8:34 AM, Jan Karlsson <jan.karls...@ericsson.com> wrote:
> Hello fellow devs, > > Currently JMX authentication is handled by using a password file. I was > thinking we could make this a little more sophisticated. > What I propose is, we plug JMX so that it uses the internal authenticator > Cassandra has to authenticate the user. This will allow us to authenticate > towards the Cassandra database. (No pesky password file) > We can make this pluggable so that users could add their own authenticator > and authorizer. > > I have created a JIRA ticket on this as I have been working on a solution > which would let us do precisely this. > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-10091 > > What are your thoughts on this? > > Best Regards > Jan Karlsson > -- Jonathan Ellis Project Chair, Apache Cassandra co-founder, http://www.datastax.com @spyced
