The following table summarizes connection properties related to authentication.

Table 1. Authentication Properties
Property Characteristic
AuthenticationMethod Determines which authentication method the driver uses when establishing a connection. The default is userIdPassword.
KeyspaceName Specifies the default name of the Cassandra keyspace to which the driver connects. This value is used as the default qualifier for unqualified table names in SQL queries.
LoginConfigName Specifies the name of the entry in the JAAS login configuration file that contains the authentication technology used by the driver to establish a Kerberos connection. The LoginModule-specific items found in the entry are passed on to the LoginModule. The default is JDBC_DRIVER_01.
Password Specifies the password used to connect to your database for user ID/password authentication.
ServicePrincipalName Specifies the three-part service principal name registered with the key distribution center (KDC) in a Kerberos configuration. When no value is specified, the driver builds a service principle name based on environment variables.
User Specifies the user ID for user ID/password authentication or the user principal name for Kerberos authentication.