org.apache.cassandra.auth
Class AuthenticatedUser

java.lang.Object
  org.apache.cassandra.auth.AuthenticatedUser

public class AuthenticatedUser
extends java.lang.Object

Returned from IAuthenticator#authenticate(), represents an authenticated user everywhere internally.

Field Summary

static AuthenticatedUser	ANONYMOUS_USER
static java.lang.String	ANONYMOUS_USERNAME

Constructor Summary

AuthenticatedUser(java.lang.String name)

Method Summary

java.lang.String	getName()
boolean	isAnonymous() If IAuthenticator doesn't require authentication, this method may return true.
boolean	isSuper() Checks the user's superuser status.
java.lang.String	toString()

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Field Detail

ANONYMOUS_USERNAME

public static final java.lang.String ANONYMOUS_USERNAME

See Also:

Constant Field Values

ANONYMOUS_USER

public static final AuthenticatedUser ANONYMOUS_USER

Constructor Detail

AuthenticatedUser

public AuthenticatedUser(java.lang.String name)

Method Detail

getName

public java.lang.String getName()

isSuper

public boolean isSuper()

Checks the user's superuser status. Only a superuser is allowed to perform CREATE USER and DROP USER queries. Im most cased, though not necessarily, a superuser will have Permission.ALL on every resource (depends on IAuthorizer implementation).

isAnonymous

public boolean isAnonymous()

If IAuthenticator doesn't require authentication, this method may return true.

toString

public java.lang.String toString()

Overrides:

toString in class java.lang.Object