title: How do you create the first user in Cassandra DB
body: <p>How does one create the first user in a cassandra database?</p>
  
  <p>I tried:</p>
  
  <pre><code>CREATE USER username WITH PASSWORD "";
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>and its says:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Bad Request: Only superusers are allowed to perform CREATE USER queries
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But I have never created a user before this attempt, so how do you create the first user in a cassandra database?</p>
  
  <p>This seems a little strange because it's like a chicken and egg problem, but people use Cassandra so I am sure there must be a solution somewhere.</p>