Super great, thank you for this contribution Kurt! On Thu, Jul 5, 2018 at 1:49 PM, kurt greaves <k...@instaclustr.com> wrote:
> We've seen a need for an LDAP authentication implementation for Apache > Cassandra so we've gone ahead and created an open source implementation > (ALv2) utilising the pluggable auth support in C*. > > Now, I'm positive there are multiple implementations floating around that > haven't been open sourced, and that's understandable given how much of a > nightmare working with LDAP is, so we've come up with an implementation > that will hopefully work for the general case, but should be perfectly > possible to extend, or at least use an example to create your own and maybe > contribute something back ;). It's by no means perfect, but it seems to > work, and we're hoping people with actual LDAP environments can test and > add support/improvements for more weird LDAP based use cases. > > You can find the code and setup + configuration instructions on github > <https://github.com/instaclustr/cassandra-ldap>, and a blog that goes > into more detail here > <https://www.instaclustr.com/apache-cassandra-ldap-authentication/>. > > PS: Don't look too closely at the nasty cache hackery in the 3.11 branch, > I'll fix it in 4.0, I promise. Just be satisfied that it works, I think. >
