[CASSANDRA-16456] Add Plugin Support for CQLSH

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 4.1-alpha1, 4.1-beta1, 4.1
• Component/s: Tool/cqlsh
• Labels: gsoc2021 mentor
• Change Category: Semantic
• Complexity: Normal
• Platform: All

Source Control Link

https://github.com/apache/cassandra/commit/381c2a4fa82db80543fd67da6669de022d7576c4

Test and Documentation Plan

Verified via Sigv4 auth plugin, PlainTextAuth standard.  Tested from ini file, old command line, and new command lines.

Will submit separate patch for adding to docs in website

• Assignee: Brian Houser
• Reporter: Brian Houser

Authors

Brian Houser

Reviewers

Brandon Williams, Dinesh Joshi, Michael Semb Wever, Stefan Miklosovic

• Created: 18/Feb/21 07:24
• Updated: 05/Oct/22 22:22
• Resolved: 02/Sep/22 13:32

Description

Currently the Cassandra drivers offer a plugin authenticator architecture for the support of different authentication methods. This has been leveraged to provide support for LDAP, Kerberos, and Sigv4 authentication. Unfortunately, cqlsh, the included CLI tool, does not offer such support. Switching to a new enhanced authentication scheme thus means being cut off from using cqlsh in normal operation.

We should have a means of using the same plugins and authentication providers as the Python Cassandra driver.

Here's a link to an initial draft of CEP.

Sub-Tasks

• Add Documentation for new CQLSH Auth_provider functionality: Triage Needed