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Sönke Liebau commented on KAFKA-859: ------------------------------------ Is this still something we would want to do? The issue has not seen any updates in five and a half years, but apparently people are still using mx4j in recent-ish versions (KAFKA-4946)? Looking at the mx4j project it seems to have died sometime around 2012, should we maybe consider replacing it with something like [Jolokia|https://jolokia.org/] if we really want jmx over http? > support basic auth protection of mx4j console > --------------------------------------------- > > Key: KAFKA-859 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-859 > Project: Kafka > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: core > Affects Versions: 0.8.0 > Reporter: Scott Clasen > Priority: Major > > Support configuration of a basic auth username and password to protect the > mx4j console. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)