Enabling Authentication using LDAP

LDAP is a widely known authentication methods which is both secure and reliable. We can enable LDAP authentication in few simple steps. The steps below will explain the step by step process to enable LDAP authentication in any Cassandra environment.

Pre-requisites:

We must have a properly configured LDAP v3 server running. The following are the supported LDAP servers.

• [object Object]
• [object Object]
• OpenLDAP 2.4.x
• Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition 11.1.1.7.0

Procedure:

Before enabling AD, we have to login with password authentication and we need to create the AD users with blank password in Cassandra, and respective permission to the user account should be defined in database using cqlsh.