rclark Software, Support, and Training for Apache Cassandra en-US Fri, 24 May 2013 03:35:30 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.3 q http://www.datastax.com/support-forums/search.php http://www.datastax.com/support-forums/topic/problems-using-simpleauthority-on-windows-machine#post-8608 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 17:46:27 +0000 rclark 8608@http://www.datastax.com/support-forums/ <p>This was my fault. My java code had some extra double quotes around the parameters to create the cluster. The error message led me off to the wrong path. I have it working now. </p> http://www.datastax.com/support-forums/topic/problems-using-simpleauthority-on-windows-machine#post-8607 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 15:41:15 +0000 rclark 8607@http://www.datastax.com/support-forums/ <p>I tried setting everything up for Simple Authentication with Cassandra locally on my PC but I can't get everything just right so that it works.</p> <p>I have authenticator: org.apache.cassandra.auth.SimpleAuthenticator<br /> and authority: org.apache.cassandra.auth.SimpleAuthority specified in the cassandra.yaml file.</p> <p>I changed the JAVA_OPTS in the cassandra.bat file as follows:</p> <p>REM ***** JAVA options *****<br /> set JAVA_OPTS=^<br /> -ea^<br /> -javaagent:"%CASSANDRA_HOME%\lib\jamm-0.2.2.jar"^<br /> -Xms1G^<br /> -Xmx1G^<br /> -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError^<br /> -XX:+UseParNewGC^<br /> -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC^<br /> -XX:+CMSParallelRemarkEnabled^<br /> -XX:SurvivorRatio=8^<br /> -XX:MaxTenuringThreshold=1^<br /> -XX:CMSInitiatingOccupancyFraction=75^<br /> -XX:+UseCMSInitiatingOccupancyOnly^<br /> -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.port=7199^<br /> -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false^<br /> -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=false^<br /> -Dlog4j.configuration=log4j-server.properties^<br /> -Dlog4j.defaultInitOverride=true^<br /> -Dpasswd.properties=%CASSANDRA_HOME%\conf\passwd.properties^<br /> -Daccess.properties=%CASSANDRA_HOME%\conf\access.properties</p> <p>I have access.properties set up as this:</p> <p># Access to Keyspace1 (add/remove column families, etc).<br /> BullfrogArticle.&lt;ro&gt;=toadforcloud<br /> BullfrogArticle.&lt;rw&gt;=evolve24<br /> BullfrogImage.&lt;ro&gt;=toadforcloud<br /> BullfrogImage.&lt;rw&gt;=evolve24<br /> ChartData.&lt;ro&gt;=toadforcloud<br /> ChartData.&lt;rw&gt;=evolve24</p> <p># Access to Standard1 (keyspace Keyspace1)<br /> # Keyspace1.Standard1.&lt;rw&gt;=toadforcloud,evolve24</p> <p>And passwd.properties set up like this:</p> <p>toadforcloud=password<br /> evolve24=adminpwd</p> <p>When I run it I get this:</p> <p>ERROR [pool-2-thread-1] 2013-01-23 09:35:01,454 Cassandra.java (line 2917) Internal error processing login<br /> java.lang.RuntimeException: Unexpected authentication problem<br /> at org.apache.cassandra.auth.SimpleAuthenticator.authenticate(SimpleAuthenticator.java:123)<br /> at org.apache.cassandra.service.ClientState.login(ClientState.java:85)<br /> at org.apache.cassandra.thrift.CassandraServer.login(CassandraServer.java:784)<br /> at org.apache.cassandra.thrift.Cassandra$Processor$login.process(Cassandra.java:2911)<br /> at org.apache.cassandra.thrift.Cassandra$Processor.process(Cassandra.java:2889)<br /> at org.apache.cassandra.thrift.CustomTThreadPoolServer$WorkerProcess.run(CustomTThreadPoolServer.java:187)<br /> at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)<br /> at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)<br /> at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)<br /> Caused by: AuthenticationException(why:Given password in password mode PLAIN could not be validated for user "evolve24")<br /> at org.apache.cassandra.auth.SimpleAuthenticator.authenticate(SimpleAuthenticator.java:104)<br /> ... 8 more</p> <p>I have set a break point in my code so I know that the password is being passed in correctly to create the Cluster. Do you have any ideas what I could have set up wrong?</p> <p>Thank You </p>