On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 08:18:49 -0600 Ted Zlatanov <t...@lifelogs.com> wrote:
TZ> On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:30:52 -0600 Ted Zlatanov <t...@lifelogs.com> wrote: > Can a Cassandra node be made read-only (as far as clients know)? TZ> I realized I have another use case for read-only access besides backups: TZ> On our network we have Cassandra readers, writers, and analyzers TZ> (read+write). The writers and analyzers can run anywhere. The readers TZ> can run anywhere too. I don't want the readers to have write access but TZ> they should be able to read all keyspaces. TZ> I think the best way to solve this is with an IAuthenticator change to TZ> distinguish between full permissions and read-only permissions. Then TZ> the Thrift API has to be modified to check for write access in only some TZ> functions: ... TZ> Does this seem reasonable? Any comments, while we're discussing authentication? I think read-only access makes a lot of sense in this context. Ted
