Hello. Can anyone explain me please what I'm doing wrong? I'm trying to add sasl plaintext auth to kafka 2.2.2.
Configuration steps are below: 1. config/server.properties sasl.enabled.mechanisms=PLAIN security.inter.broker.protocol=SASL_PLAINTEXT sasl.mechanism.inter.broker.protocol=PLAIN listeners=SASL_PLAINTEXT://:9094 security.protocol=SASL_PLAINTEXT 2. config/kafka_server_jaas.conf KafkaServer { org.apache.kafka.common.security.plain.PlainLoginModule required username="admin" password="user-admin-secret" user_admin="user-admin-secret" user_alice="alice-secret"; }; 3. /etc/systemd/system/kafka-2.2.2.service [Unit] Requires=zookeeper.service After=zookeeper.service [Service] Type=simple User=kafka Group=kafka Environment=KAFKA_OPTS=-Djava.security.auth.login.config=/opt/kafka_2.12-2.2.2/config/kafka_server_jaas.conf ExecStart=/opt/kafka_2.12-2.2.2/bin/kafka-server-start.sh /opt/kafka_2.12-2.2.2/config/server.properties ExecStop=/opt/kafka_2.12-2.2.2/bin/kafka-server-stop.sh Restart=on-abnormal [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target 4. config/kafka_client_jaas.conf KafkaClient { org.apache.kafka.common.security.plain.PlainLoginModule required username="alice" password="alice-secret"; }; 5. bin/sasl-kafka-topics.sh exec $(dirname $0)/kafka-run-class.sh -Djava.security.auth.login.config=$(dirname $0)/../config/kafka_client_jaas.conf kafka.admin.TopicCommand "$@" After that when I'm trying to create topic with: bin/sasl-kafka-topics.sh --create --bootstrap-server localhost:9094 --replication-factor 1 --partitions 1 --topic my-topic I got an error: kafka-server-start.sh[19311]: [2020-01-20 13:47:09,404] INFO [SocketServer brokerId=0] Failed authentication with /127.0.0.1 (Unexpected Kafka request of type METADATA during SASL handshake.) (org.apache.kafka.common.network.Selector) What did I miss? Thanks.