how can I do auth ?

[medyagh]

is there a way to create a testuser and I can authenticate with it?

[demestav]

In /etc/cassandra/cassandra.yaml the authenticator is set to AllowAllAuthenticator essentially disabling authentication. This needs to be set to PasswordAuthenticator before starting (or restarting) Cassandra. When authentication is enabled, you then can login as the default cassandra user and create the testuser.

Of course it would be better if authentication could be enabled through an environment variable.

[dyangelo-grullon]

This is also cumbersome to configure in local development, due to #58.

[medyagh]

agree with @dag4202 the current configuration setup is very painful !

[JMurph2015]

I agree here. Since Cassandra doesn't have a good way to auto-configure auth, this is incredibly tedious with docker containers right now.

[evanstucker-hates-2fa]

I need to be able to configure authentication. Can we place merge one of the various pull requests that fixes this?

Security should be the default, not the special case. Docker images aren't just for developing on laptops anymore - this image is being used in production environments.

[tianon]

I'm sorry, but honestly if we're going to do anything more with environment variables it would likely be in the opposite direction (which we won't do due to the backwards compatibility implications) -- modifying a YAML file via shell script is very fragile, and setting complex configuration in this way is not great. For custom configuration, the only/best recommendation is to provide an appropriate cassandra.yaml file to your running instance (via a new image with FROM / COPY in a short Dockerfile, via Docker Configs, via bind mount, etc).

Closing in favor of #160 + docker-library/docs#1317.