How to configure access permissions for Cassandra on Linux Ubuntu

Question

Thank-you for reading this. I am stuck at step three on this tutorial pertaining to installing Cassandra: http://wiki.apache.org/cassandra/GettingStarted#Step_3:_Start_Cassandra

Answer 1

Give the user you want permissions to the data and commitlog dirs.

sudo chown -R cassandra:cassandra /var/lib/cassandra/data


sudo chown -R cassandra:cassandra /var/lib/cassandra/commitlog