I have recently upgraded datastax-enterprise from 4.8.16 to 5.0.15. We are using password authentication in PlainText format. But below message is continuously coming in logs.
2018-12-11 09:50:04.446 WARN [SharedPool-Worker-5 - com.datastax.bdp.cassandra.auth.DseAuthenticator:411] Plain text authentication without client / server encryption is strongly discouraged
2018-12-11 09:50:37.465 WARN [SharedPool-Worker-1 - com.datastax.bdp.cassandra.auth.DseAuthenticator:411] Plain text authentication without client / server encryption is strongly discouraged
2018-12-11 09:50:49.472 WARN [SharedPool-Worker-4 - com.datastax.bdp.cassandra.auth.DseAuthenticator:411] Plain text authentication without client / server encryption is strongly discouraged
2018-12-11 09:55:43.148 WARN [SharedPool-Worker-2 - com.datastax.bdp.cassandra.auth.DseAuthenticator:411] Plain text authentication without client / server encryption is strongly discouraged
2018-12-11 09:57:50.736 WARN [SharedPool-Worker-3 - com.datastax.bdp.cassandra.auth.DseAuthenticator:411] Plain text authentication without client / server encryption is strongly discouraged
2018-12-11 09:59:33.013 WARN [SharedPool-Worker-3 - com.datastax.bdp.cassandra.auth.DseAuthenticator:411] Plain text authentication without client / server encryption is strongly discouraged
2018-12-11 10:00:04.450 WARN [SharedPool-Worker-3 - com.datastax.bdp.cassandra.auth.DseAuthenticator:411] Plain text authentication without client / server encryption is strongly discouraged
2018-12-11 10:00:37.469 WARN [SharedPool-Worker-3 - com.datastax.bdp.cassandra.auth.DseAuthenticator:411] Plain text authentication without client / server encryption is strongly discouraged
2018-12-11 10:00:49.475 WARN [SharedPool-Worker-4 - com.datastax.bdp.cassandra.auth.DseAuthenticator:411] Plain text authentication without client / server encryption is strongly discouraged
2018-12-11 10:05:43.364 WARN [SharedPool-Worker-2 - com.datastax.bdp.cassandra.auth.DseAuthenticator:411] Plain text authentication without client / server encryption is strongly discouraged
2018-12-11 10:07:50.840 WARN [SharedPool-Worker-3 - com.datastax.bdp.cassandra.auth.DseAuthenticator:411] Plain text authentication without client / server encryption is strongly discouraged
2018-12-11 10:09:33.658 WARN [SharedPool-Worker-2 - com.datastax.bdp.cassandra.auth.DseAuthenticator:411] Plain text authentication without client / server encryption is strongly discouraged
How to get rid of this message as I am not interest to use encryption for now?
You need to set:
authentication_options:
plain_text_without_ssl: allow
in your dse.yaml configuration file. The possible settings for this are:
block - block the request with an authentication error
warn - log a warning about the request but allow it to continue (default)
allow - allow the request without any warning