Package org.apache.cassandra.auth

Interface Summary

Interface	Description
AuthCacheMBean
IAuthenticator
IAuthenticator.SaslNegotiator	Performs the actual SASL negotiation for a single authentication attempt.
IAuthorizer	Primary Cassandra authorization interface.
IInternodeAuthenticator
IResource	The interface at the core of Cassandra authorization.
IRoleManager	Responsible for managing roles (which also includes what used to be known as users), including creation, deletion, alteration and the granting and revoking of roles to other roles.
PasswordAuthenticator.CredentialsCacheMBean
PermissionsCacheMBean	Retained since CASSANDRA-7715 for backwards compatibility of MBean interface classes.
RolesCacheMBean	Retained since CASSANDRA-7715 for backwards compatibility of MBean interface classes.

Class Summary

Class	Description
AllowAllAuthenticator
AllowAllAuthorizer
AllowAllInternodeAuthenticator
AuthCache<K,V>
AuthConfig	Only purpose is to Initialize authentication/authorization via AuthConfig.applyAuth().
AuthenticatedUser	Returned from IAuthenticator#authenticate(), represents an authenticated user everywhere internally.
AuthKeyspace
AuthMigrationListener	MigrationListener implementation that cleans up permissions on dropped resources.
CassandraAuthorizer	CassandraAuthorizer is an IAuthorizer implementation that keeps user permissions internally in C* using the system_auth.role_permissions table.
CassandraLoginModule	LoginModule which authenticates a user towards the Cassandra database using the internal authentication mechanism.
CassandraPrincipal	This class implements the Principal interface and represents a user.
CassandraRoleManager	Responsible for the creation, maintenance and deletion of roles for the purposes of authentication and authorization.
DataResource	The primary type of resource in Cassandra.
FunctionResource	IResource implementation representing functions.
JMXResource
PasswordAuthenticator	PasswordAuthenticator is an IAuthenticator implementation that keeps credentials (rolenames and bcrypt-hashed passwords) internally in C* - in system_auth.roles CQL3 table.
PermissionDetails	Sets of instances of this class are returned by IAuthorizer.listPermissions() method for LIST PERMISSIONS query.
PermissionsCache
Resources
RoleOptions
RoleResource	IResource implementation representing database roles.
Roles
RolesCache

Enum Summary

Enum	Description
IRoleManager.Option	Supported options for CREATE ROLE/ALTER ROLE (and CREATE USER/ALTER USER, which are aliases provided for backwards compatibility).
Permission	An enum encapsulating the set of possible permissions that an authenticated user can have on a resource.