Is there a way to pass 2 currently? Because you can get the token via curl like 
I’m currently doing?

Thanks
Shawn

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> On Jun 13, 2019, at 12:21 PM, Andy LoPresto <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I see a couple choices here:
> 
> 1. Use the CA to generate and sign a new certificate for deployments. This 
> certificate would not be as sensitive as the server certificate, as you can 
> put stricter permissions on that identity within the NiFi access controls, 
> and the cert would be issued for a DN that cannot be used to impersonate the 
> server itself. Use this certificate to authenticate for deployment 
> activities. 
> 2. Manually extract the user’s JWT from the Developer Tools in your browser 
> and pass that into the CLI. This token expires regularly, so you will need to 
> continually update it. 
> 3. Build the Kerberos implementation of the authentication aspects of the CLI 
> toolkit. 
> 
> Andy LoPresto
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>> On Jun 13, 2019, at 10:00 AM, Shawn Weeks <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> For our organization the server certificate is considered sensitive and not 
>> available to the users who need to deploy to NiFi. Actual authentication to 
>> NiFi is handled through Knox and our SSO Service so the end user never deals 
>> with SSL or has access to a certificate. Originally I started down the path 
>> of writing a bunch of tools based on NiPyAPI to handle deployments but since 
>> the CLI already does that I was hoping to save some work. Currently we do 
>> several other things via rest using the Kerberos Token.
>> 
>> As I looked through the tool kit CLI I was seeing that auth token being 
>> passed into all the rest calls so I was hoping I could hijack wherever that 
>> was being generated via 2way ssl and add an option to call Kerberos instead 
>> to get the token. When I say token I mean the auth bearer token that you can 
>> get from a post request to /access/kerberos in NiFi and 
>> /access/token/Kerberos in NiFi registry.
>> 
>> Thanks
>> Shawn
>> 
>> On 6/12/19, 12:06 PM, "Bryan Bende" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>   I meant to say that you obviously could generate certs for CLI users, but I
>>   was just mentioning an alternative where you can proxy an identity.
>> 
>>   Right now the CLI never obtains a token because it is all cert based.
>> 
>>>   On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 1:03 PM Bryan Bende <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Right now the idea is that whoever is running the CLI would have access to
>>> a NiFi server certificate and then you can proxy any user you want. There
>>> should be examples of this in the readme or toolkit guide.
>>> 
>>> Supporting Kerberos auth was something I wanted to do, but it’s definitely
>>> not a trivial effort.
>>> 
>>> On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 12:57 PM Andy LoPresto <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Shawn,
>>>> 
>>>> I’m not sure I understand your question.
>>>> 
>>>> I am in the process of refactoring the TLS Toolkit to integrate with
>>>> public certificate authorities, so in the near future it will be easier to
>>>> use certificates signed by external authorities rather than self-signed.
>>>> 
>>>> My understanding is that you are talking about the CLI Toolkit rather
>>>> than the TLS Toolkit, but your reference to “token” was ambiguous, so I’m
>>>> going to proceed with the understanding that you are referring to the JWT
>>>> token used to identify an authenticated user when communicating with the
>>>> NiFi API.
>>>> 
>>>> You may want to look at JerseyNiFiClient [1], which has methods for
>>>> getting various clients given an authentication token.
>>>> 
>>>> You can create the token via the POST /access/kerberos API [2].
>>>> 
>>>> [1]
>>>> https://github.com/apache/nifi/blob/master/nifi-toolkit/nifi-toolkit-cli/src/main/java/org/apache/nifi/toolkit/cli/impl/client/nifi/impl/JerseyNiFiClient.java#L163
>>>> <
>>>> https://github.com/apache/nifi/blob/master/nifi-toolkit/nifi-toolkit-cli/src/main/java/org/apache/nifi/toolkit/cli/impl/client/nifi/impl/JerseyNiFiClient.java#L163
>>>>> 
>>>> [2] https://nifi.apache.org/docs/nifi-docs/rest-api/index.html <
>>>> https://nifi.apache.org/docs/nifi-docs/rest-api/index.html>
>>>> 
>>>> Andy LoPresto
>>>> [email protected]
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>>>> 
>>>>> On Jun 12, 2019, at 9:39 AM, Shawn Weeks <[email protected]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> I work in an environment reluctant to create self signed ssl
>>>> certificates and I’m looking at the feasibility of having the toolkit cli
>>>> authenticate via Kerberos. I was expecting it to be as simple as adding
>>>> another way to get the authentication token but I’m having trouble figuring
>>>> out exactly when the token is created. I see lots of references to it after
>>>> it’s been created.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>> Shawn
>>>> 
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