[jira] [Created] (CASSANDRA-7424) cassandra authentication failure 1.2.11

["Paul Makkar (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Paul Makkar created CASSANDRA-7424:
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             Summary: cassandra authentication failure 1.2.11
                 Key: CASSANDRA-7424
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-7424
             Project: Cassandra
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: Core
         Environment: linux 2.6.18-371.6.1.el5 x86_64, cassandra 1.2.11. 6 Node cluster, 3 in DC1 and 3 in DC2.
            Reporter: Paul Makkar


I am having issues enabling authentication. On my 6 node cluster, I took one node and followed the instruction in the cassandra 1.2 guide, i.e. set authenticator: PasswordAuthenticator in the cassandra.yaml and restart cassandra. However, when I restart cassandra and try logging in, it hangs for a few seconds followed by the following  error message:

cassandra-cli -username cassandra -password cassandra
Exception during authentication to the cassandra node, Verify the keyspace exists, and that you are using the correct credentials.

The system_auth keyspace does exist:
$ find system_auth/
system_auth/
system_auth/users
system_auth/credentials
system_auth/permissions

I then tried setting the authoriser in the cassandra.yaml:
authorizer: org.apache.cassandra.auth.CassandraAuthorizer
But I get the same error. 

Then I disabled authentication and increased the replication factor of system_auth keyspace:

update keyspace system_auth with placement_strategy = 'NetworkTopologyStrategy' and strategy_options = {DC1 : 3, DC2 : 3} and durable_writes = true;

I reenabled authentication, but get the same error.

I then shutdown cassandra and deleted the system, system_auth, system_traces data directories and restarted. I get the same error.

Trying to log on with the cqlsh client gives this error:

cql.cassandra.ttypes.AuthenticationException: AuthenticationException(why='org.apache.cassandra.exceptions.ReadTimeoutException: Operation timed out - received only 1 responses.')

Can any advise what is going wrong here? 

Thanks in advance.





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