[CASSANDRA-8142] prevent the command "cassandra start" from starting a cluster

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Normal
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.2
• Component/s: Packaging
• Assignee: Robert Stupp
• Reporter: Steven Lowenthal

Authors

Robert Stupp

Reviewers

Michael Shuler

• Created: 20/Oct/14 11:36
• Updated: 10/Feb/20 14:22
• Resolved: 05/Dec/15 07:26

Description

Students often type
"sudo service cassandra start" wrong, and type "sudo cassandra start".

Running a package installation as root messes up their environments.

since "start" is not a valid option on the "cassandra" command, we should block cassandra from starting.

Issue Links

• is related to: CASSANDRA-15549 NativeLibrary recommends to run Cassandra as root but users should not