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• Download Apache Cassandra 3.0, install into /opt/app/music and follow these instructions http://cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest/getting_started/installing.html

• Create a user in Cassandra

  1. Edit conf/cassandra.yaml file

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     authenticator: PasswordAuthenticator authorizer: CassandraAuthorizer

  2. Restart Cassandra

  3. Login to cqlsh with default credentials (cqlsh can be found in $CASSANDRA_HOME/bin directory)

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     ./cqlsh -u cassandra -p cassandra

  4. Change default user create new user with the following command. Remember this username/password for music properties

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     CREATE USER new_user WITH PASSWORD ‘new_password’ SUPERUSER;

  5. Change password for default user ‘Cassandra’ so that no one will be able to login

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     ALTER USER cassandra WITH PASSWORD ‘SomeLongRandomStringNoonewillthinkof’;

  6. Provide the new user credentials to Music. Update music.properties file and uncomment or add the following:

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     cassandra.user=<new_user> cassandra.password=<new_password>

• Test to make sure Cassandra is running correctly by accessing it through cqlsh using the credentials created in step 4.

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