ALTER ROLE

Synopsis

Use the ALTER ROLE statement to change the properties of an existing role. It allows modifying properties SUPERUSER, PASSWORD, and LOGIN.

This statement is enabled by setting the YB-TServer flag --use_cassandra_authentication to true.

Syntax

Diagram

Grammar

alter_table ::= ALTER ROLE role_name WITH role_property [ AND role_property ...];

role_property ::=  PASSWORD = '<Text Literal>'
                 | LOGIN = <Boolean Literal>'
                 | SUPERUSER = '<Boolean Literal>'

Where

role_name is a text identifier.

Semantics

An error is raised if role_name does not exist.

Examples

You can do this as shown below.

ycqlsh:example> CREATE ROLE finance;

ycqlsh:example> ALTER ROLE finance with LOGIN = true;

ycqlsh:example> ALTER ROLE finance with SUPERUSER = true;

ycqlsh:example> ALTER ROLE finance with PASSWORD = 'jsfp9ajhufans2' AND SUPERUSER = false;