
Enable authentication
Enable authentication to have clients provide valid credentials before they can connect to a YugabyteDB cluster.
Enabling user authentication in YSQL and YCQL requires setting the appropriate flags on server startup:
--ysql_enable_auth=true
in YSQL--use_cassandra_authentication=true
in YCQL
In YSQL, further fine-grained control over client authentication is provided by setting the --ysql_hba_conf_csv
flag. You can define rules for access to localhost and remote clients based on IP addresses, authentication methods, and use of TLS (aka SSL) certificates.