Hi Luke, Just to elaborate a little bit more, the options for authenticating users are...
- Client certificates - LDAP username/password - Kerberos username/password - Kerberos SPNEGO - Knox SSO - Open ID Connect - Custom login identity provider As Pierre mentioned, the management of the users and passwords would be done external to NiFi in whichever of these approaches is being used. -Bryan On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 7:53 AM Pierre Villard <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Luke, > > Login/password authentication is possible (and the most frequently used > option in enterprises) as long as you have a LDAP/AD backend. However you > can't have NiFi allowing you to create users with a password. > > Let us know if something is not clear. > > Thanks, > Pierre > > Le ven. 21 sept. 2018 à 13:05, Luke <[email protected]> a > écrit : > > > Hi guys, > > > > After spending half a day configuring NiFi to be secure enough to even > > contemplate reading the next section on user authentication, it seems > > like there is no simple username+password authentication available. > > > > Is this correct and am I mistaken?? > > > > I have NiFi running behind Nginx so I might just use BASIC auth, which > > means 'unsecuring' NiFi so authentication can be skipped. > > > > It's just exasperating that NiFi's tight security has actually caused me > > to give up on securing it. > > > > Regards, > > > > - Luke > >
