ALTER ROLE

Synopsis

The ALTER ROLE statement changes the properties of an existing role. It allows modifying properties SUPERUSER, PASSWORD, and LOGIN.

This statment is enabled by setting the yb-tserver gflag 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.

cqlsh:example> CREATE ROLE finance;

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

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

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

See also

CREATE ROLE DROP ROLE GRANT ROLE REVOKE ROLE GRANT PERMISSION REVOKE PERMISSION Other CQL Statements