Why Apigee Cassandra Database Not Authentication Enabled By Default?

nathanaw
Participant V

This almost shocked me to the core.

Understand that Apigee Cassandra by default installs without any Authentication Enabled -- https://docs.apigee.com/private-cloud/v4.19.01/enable-cassandra-authentication

Why?

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Hi @Nathan Aw

It isn't probably the main reason but I've seen issues about Cassandra maintenance tasks if authentication is enabled. See here :

https://community.apigee.com/questions/59811/backup-not-working-after-enabling-cassandra-jmx-au.html

(And the solution of this guy looks a bit dirty)

Other people have are also encountering issue with JMX Monitoring but I think that it doesn't rely on the same authentication mechanism :

https://community.apigee.com/questions/60400/jmx-authentication-error-for-cassandra-1.html

https://community.apigee.com/questions/57981/connection-failed-after-enabling-cassandra-jmx-rem.html