See the first few messages in this thread between me and Ted.
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Anthony Molinaro <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]> >
