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Sam Tunnicliffe updated CASSANDRA-7653:
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Component/s: Distributed Metadata
CQL
> Add role based access control to Cassandra
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> Key: CASSANDRA-7653
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-7653
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Sub-task
> Components: CQL, Distributed Metadata
> Reporter: Mike Adamson
> Assignee: Sam Tunnicliffe
> Labels: docs-impacting, security
> Fix For: 2.2.0 beta 1
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> Attachments: 7653.patch, CQLSmokeTest.java, cql_smoke_test.py
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> The current authentication model supports granting permissions to individual
> users. While this is OK for small or medium organizations wanting to
> implement authorization, it does not work well in large organizations because
> of the overhead of having to maintain the permissions for each user.
> Introducing roles into the authentication model would allow sets of
> permissions to be controlled in one place as a role and then the role granted
> to users. Roles should also be able to be granted to other roles to allow
> hierarchical sets of permissions to be built up.
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