[CASSANDRA-7212] Allow to switch user within CQLSH session

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.16, 2.1.6, 2.2.0 beta 1
• Component/s: Legacy/CQL
• Labels: cqlsh

Environment

[cqlsh 4.1.1 | Cassandra 2.0.7.31 | CQL spec 3.1.1 | Thrift protocol 19.39.0]

• Assignee: Carl Yeksigian
• Reporter: Jose Martinez Poblete

Authors

Carl Yeksigian

Reviewers

Tom Hobbs

• Created: 12/May/14 18:26
• Updated: 16/Apr/19 09:31
• Resolved: 15/May/15 16:43

Description

Once a user is logged into CQLSH, it is not possible to switch to another user without exiting and relaunch
This is a feature offered in postgres and probably other databases:

http://secure.encivasolutions.com/knowledgebase.php?action=displayarticle&id=1126

Perhaps this could be implemented on CQLSH as part of the "USE" directive:

USE <Keyspace> [USER] [password]