Rename User

[Petr Malik <pm...@tesora.com>]

Hello.

I know that Cassandra does not natively provide functionality for renaming users, just for altering passwords.

I implemented it in my application by creating a user with the new name and original password, granting it the privileges of the original user and dropping the original user.

The above procedure seems to work as expected, but I have been wondering if the reason why Cassandra does not support renaming natively is because it is actively trying to prevent anybody from doing this.

Are there any potential (security?) issues with user renaming and/or the outlined procedure?


Thanks.

P.