How will authentication work with non-java clients? I don't think thrift itself has authentication built in, and it sounds like a java library is being proposed for the guts. Will it still be possible to connect from a non-java client or will the thrift interface be deprecated?
-Anthony On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 04:55:35PM -0600, Jonathan Ellis wrote: > per-keyspace authentication will be basically zero overhead after you > connect, and the default will be "allow everyone" just like now. > > On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Joe Stump <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Nov 11, 2009, at 3:29 PM, Alexander Vushkan wrote: > > > >> ...but authentication support would be nice to have... > > > > I'll continue to object to this. If you're considering running Cassandra (or > > MySQL or Reddis or Memcache or MemcacheDB or ...) on an open network Ur > > Doin' It Wrong. This is what VPN's were created for. Nobody in their right > > mind runs stuff like this, in production, exposed to the outside world. > > > > Cassandra was built for performance and adding this authentication stuff > > will do nothing but be an unneeded performance hit for a use case that the > > project shouldn't be fulfilling. > > > > --Joe > > > > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Anthony Molinaro <[email protected]>
