Problems using org.apache.cassandra.auth.SimpleAuthenticator with Windows

[Ray Clark]

I have everything set up but I can't seem to get authentication to work. I think my problem might be how to tell Cassandra where the access.properties and passwd.properties files are. Here is what I've tried in the cassandra.bat file:

I first tried specifying it on the CASSANDRA_PARAMS line as this:

set CASSANDRA_PARAMS=-Dcassandra -Dcassandra-foreground=yes -Dpasswd.properties=%CASSANDRA_HOME%\conf\passwd.properties -Daccess.properties=%CASSANDRA_HOME%\conf\access.properties

I then tried specifying it on the JAVA_OPTS line as follows:

set JAVA_OPTS=^
-ea^
-javaagent:"%CASSANDRA_HOME%\lib\jamm-0.2.2.jar"^
-Xms1G^
-Xmx1G^
-XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError^
-XX:+UseParNewGC^
-XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC^
-XX:+CMSParallelRemarkEnabled^
-XX:SurvivorRatio=8^
-XX:MaxTenuringThreshold=1^
-XX:CMSInitiatingOccupancyFraction=75^
-XX:+UseCMSInitiatingOccupancyOnly^
-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.port=7199^
-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.ssl=false^
-Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote.authenticate=false^
-Dlog4j.configuration=log4j-server.properties^
-Dlog4j.defaultInitOverride=true^
-Dpasswd.properties=%CASSANDRA_HOME%\conf\passwd.properties^
-Daccess.properties=%CASSANDRA_HOME%\conf\access.properties

No matter what I try I keep getting this:

ERROR [pool-2-thread-1] 2013-01-22 15:26:17,441 Cassandra.java (line 2917) Internal error processing login
java.lang.RuntimeException: Unexpected authentication problem
	at org.apache.cassandra.auth.SimpleAuthenticator.authenticate(SimpleAuthenticator.java:123)
	at org.apache.cassandra.service.ClientState.login(ClientState.java:85)
	at org.apache.cassandra.thrift.CassandraServer.login(CassandraServer.java:784)
	at org.apache.cassandra.thrift.Cassandra$Processor$login.process(Cassandra.java:2911)
	at org.apache.cassandra.thrift.Cassandra$Processor.process(Cassandra.java:2889)
	at org.apache.cassandra.thrift.CustomTThreadPoolServer$WorkerProcess.run(CustomTThreadPoolServer.java:187)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
Caused by: AuthenticationException(why:Given password in password mode PLAIN could not be validated for user "evolve24")
	at org.apache.cassandra.auth.SimpleAuthenticator.authenticate(SimpleAuthenticator.java:104)
	... 8 more

I am calling HFactory.createCluster as follows:

	public static Cluster createCluster(String clusterName, String host, String username, String password) {
		
		CassandraHostConfigurator cassandraHostConfigurator = new CassandraHostConfigurator(host);
		Map<String, String> credentials = new HashMap<String, String>();
		credentials.put("username", username);
		credentials.put("password", password);
		return HFactory.createCluster(clusterName, cassandraHostConfigurator, credentials);
	}

I ran it in debug and I know the correct username and password are being passed in so I'm guessing that Cassandra can't find the properties files.

Any ideas?

Thanks