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Reset Authenticator Password¶
This procedure describes what to do when a user loses his password and can not reset it with a superuser role. The procedure requires cluster downtime and as a result, all auth data is deleted.
Procedure¶
1. Stop ScyllaDB nodes (Stop all the nodes in the cluster).
sudo systemctl stop scylla-server
2. Remove system tables starting with
role prefix from /var/lib/scylla/data/system directory.rm -rf /var/lib/scylla/data/system/role*
3. Start ScyllaDB nodes.
sudo systemctl start scylla-server
4. Verify that you can log in to your node using
cqlsh command.The access is only possible using ScyllaDB superuser.
cqlsh -u cassandra -p cassandra
5. Recreate the users