It doesn't have to be the outside world, just apps from different groups. Which is the whole (or at least, a major) reason we added multiple keyspaces.
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Jake Luciani <jak...@gmail.com> wrote: > If there is a use case to open a Cassandra cluster to the world then I > agree. > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Dec 2, 2009, at 4:24 PM, "Coe, Robin" <robin....@bluecoat.com> wrote: > >> NoSQL doesn't mean no security. A production database engine has to >> protect its data. The trick is to make the auth framework fast enough >> that it doesn't adversely affect performance and robust enough that an >> application requesting data doesn't have to jump through hoops to get >> it. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Jake Luciani [mailto:jak...@gmail.com] >> Sent: December 2, 2009 4:00 PM >> To: cassandra-user@incubator.apache.org >> Subject: Re: Cassandra access control >> >> +1 this is nosql afterall. >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On Dec 2, 2009, at 3:54 PM, Mark Robson <mar...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> How about we make authentication optional, and have the protocol >>> being stateful only if you want to authenticate? >>> >>> That way we don't break backwards compatibility or introduce extra >>> complexity for people who don't need it. >>> >>> Mark >
