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[jira] [Assigned] (CASSANDRA-8650) Creation and maintenance of
roles should not require superuser status
[ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-8650?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]
Sam Tunnicliffe reassigned CASSANDRA-8650:
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Assignee: Sam Tunnicliffe
> Creation and maintenance of roles should not require superuser status
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> Key: CASSANDRA-8650
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-8650
> Project: Cassandra
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Core
> Reporter: Sam Tunnicliffe
> Assignee: Sam Tunnicliffe
> Labels: cql, security
> Fix For: 3.0
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> Currently, only roles with superuser status are permitted to create/drop/grant/revoke roles, which violates the principal of least privilege. In addition, in order to run {{ALTER ROLE}} statements a user must log in directly as that role or else be a superuser. This requirement increases the (ab)use of superuser privileges, especially where roles are created without {{LOGIN}} privileges to model groups of permissions granted to individual db users. In this scenario, a superuser is always required if such roles are to be granted and modified.
> We should add more granular permissions to allow administration of roles without requiring superuser status.
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