| Interface | Description | 
|---|---|
| AuthCacheMBean | |
| IAuthenticator | |
| IAuthenticator.SaslNegotiator | Performs the actual SASL negotiation for a single authentication attempt. | 
| IAuthorizer | Primary Cassandra authorization interface. | 
| IInternodeAuthenticator | |
| IResource | The interface at the core of Cassandra authorization. | 
| IRoleManager | Responsible for managing roles (which also includes what
 used to be known as users), including creation, deletion,
 alteration and the granting and revoking of roles to other
 roles. | 
| PasswordAuthenticator.CredentialsCacheMBean | |
| PermissionsCacheMBean | Retained since CASSANDRA-7715 for backwards compatibility of MBean interface
 classes. | 
| RolesCacheMBean | Retained since CASSANDRA-7715 for backwards compatibility of MBean interface
 classes. | 
| Class | Description | 
|---|---|
| AllowAllAuthenticator | |
| AllowAllAuthorizer | |
| AllowAllInternodeAuthenticator | |
| AuthCache<K,V> | |
| AuthConfig | Only purpose is to Initialize authentication/authorization via  AuthConfig.applyAuth(). | 
| AuthenticatedUser | Returned from IAuthenticator#authenticate(), represents an authenticated user everywhere internally. | 
| AuthKeyspace | |
| AuthMigrationListener | MigrationListener implementation that cleans up permissions on dropped resources. | 
| CassandraAuthorizer | CassandraAuthorizer is an IAuthorizer implementation that keeps
 user permissions internally in C* using the system_auth.role_permissions
 table. | 
| CassandraLoginModule | LoginModule which authenticates a user towards the Cassandra database using
 the internal authentication mechanism. | 
| CassandraPrincipal |  This class implements the  Principalinterface
 and represents a user. | 
| CassandraRoleManager | Responsible for the creation, maintenance and deletion of roles
 for the purposes of authentication and authorization. | 
| DataResource | The primary type of resource in Cassandra. | 
| FunctionResource | IResource implementation representing functions. | 
| JMXResource | |
| PasswordAuthenticator | PasswordAuthenticator is an IAuthenticator implementation
 that keeps credentials (rolenames and bcrypt-hashed passwords)
 internally in C* - in system_auth.roles CQL3 table. | 
| PermissionDetails | Sets of instances of this class are returned by IAuthorizer.listPermissions() method for LIST PERMISSIONS query. | 
| PermissionsCache | |
| Resources | |
| RoleOptions | |
| RoleResource | IResource implementation representing database roles. | 
| Roles | |
| RolesCache | 
| Enum | Description | 
|---|---|
| IRoleManager.Option | Supported options for CREATE ROLE/ALTER ROLE (and
 CREATE USER/ALTER USER, which are aliases provided
 for backwards compatibility). | 
| Permission | An enum encapsulating the set of possible permissions that an authenticated user can have on a resource. | 
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