Analysis of customer stalls showed that the `detail::hash_with_salt`
function, called from `passwords::check`, often blocks the reactor.
This function internally uses the `crypt_r` function from an external
library to compute password hashes, which is a CPU-intensive operation.
To prevent such reactor stalls, this commit moves the
`passwords::check` call to a dedicated alien thread. This thread is
created at system startup and is shared by all shards.
Within the alien thread, an `std::mutex` synchronizes access between
the thread and the shards. While this could theoretically cause
frequent lock contentions, in practice, even during connection storms,
the number of new connections per second per shard is limited
(typically hundreds per second). Additionally, the
`_conns_cpu_concurrency_semaphore` in `generic_server` ensures that not
too many connections are processed at once.
Fixesscylladb/scylladb#24524
Before this change, it was ensured that a default superuser is created
before serving CQL. However, the mechanism didn't wait for default
password initialization, so effectively, for a short period, customer
couldn't authenticate as the superuser properily. The purpose of this
change is to improve the superuser initialization mechanism to wait for
superuser default password, just as for the superuser creation.
This change:
- Introduce authenticator::ensure_superuser_is_created() to allow
waiting for complete initialization of super user authentication
- Implement ensure_superuser_is_created in password_authenticator, so
waiting for superuser password initialization is possible
- Implement ensure_superuser_is_create in transitional_authenticator,
so the implementation from password_authenticator is used
- Implement no-op ensure_superuser_is_create for other authenticators
- Modify service::ensure_superuser_is_created to wait for superuser
initialization in authenticator, just as it was implemented earlier
for role_manager
Fixesscylladb/scylladb#20566
This PR extends authentication with 2 mechanisms:
- a new role_manager subclass, which allows managing users via
LDAP server,
- a new authenticator, which delegates plaintext authentication
to a running saslauthd daemon.
The features have been ported from the enterprise repository
with their test.py tests and the documentation as part of
changing license to source available.
Fixes: scylladb/scylla-enterprise#5000Fixes: scylladb/scylla-enterprise#5001Closesscylladb/scylladb#22030
