Hi Yuki, Jeremiah & Christopher,

Thank you very much for the feedback.

Regarding removing superuser check for adding/removing identities, I have
relaxed that check and added permissions check instead. With this change
only users with appropriate permissions to add/drop identities can perform
that action.

About extending `Create Role` cqlsh statement, we have a couple of reasons
for not doing that. We designed the mTLS authenticator in such a way that a
single role can be associated with multiple identities, EX: there can be
several identities which are read_only users. Also, having a separate cqlsh
statement for identities makes it more pluggable and independent. If we
still think that extending the create role statement would be a convenient
feature, we can add it as required in the followup patches.

Christopher, I will be acting upon your feedback regarding having identity
in the cassandra.yaml optionally configurable.

Thanks,
Jyothsna Konisa.

On Thu, Jul 6, 2023 at 5:30 PM Dinesh Joshi <djo...@apache.org> wrote:

> > On Jun 30, 2023, at 1:09 PM, Jeremiah Jordan <jerem...@datastax.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > I don’t think users necessarily need to be able to update their own
> identities.  I just don’t want to have to use the super user role.  The
> super user role has all power over all things in the data base.  I don’t
> want to have to give that much power to the person who manages identities,
> I just want to give them the power to manage identities.
>
> Makes sense. I think Jyothsna already pushed an update to the PR to relax
> the restriction. Please feel free to take a look at it.
>
> Dinesh
>
>
>
>

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