Re: How to secure Admin UI with Basic Auth in Solr 5.3.x

Hi Merlin, Solr 5.2.x only supported Kerberos out of the box and introduced a framework to write your own authentication/authorization plugin. If you don't use Kerberos, the only sensible way forward for you would be to wait for the 5.3.1 release to come out and then move to it. Until then, or

Re: How to secure Admin UI with Basic Auth in Solr 5.3.x

OK, I downgraded to solr 5.2.x Unfortunatelly still no luck. I followed 2 aproaches: 1. Secure it the old fashioned way like described here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/28043957/how-to-set-apache-solr-admin-password 2. Using the Basic Authentication Plugin like described here:

Re: How to secure Admin UI with Basic Auth in Solr 5.3.x

There were some bugs with the 5.3.0 release and 5.3.1 is in the process of getting released. try out the option #2 with the RC here https://dist.apache.org/repos/dist/dev/lucene/lucene-solr-5.3.1-RC1-rev1702389/solr/ On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 5:16 PM, Merlin Morgenstern

Re: How to secure Admin UI with Basic Auth in Solr 5.3.x

Thank you for the info. I have already downgraded to 5.2.x as this is a production setup. Unfortunatelly I have the same trouble there ... Any suggestions how to fix this? What is the recommended procedure in securing the admin gui on prod setups? 2015-09-11 14:26 GMT+02:00 Noble Paul

RE: How to secure Admin UI with Basic Auth in Solr 5.3.x

The authorization plugin is new in Solr 5.3.It is hard to describe a secure Solr 5.2.1 environment simply - the basics are to protect /solr by placing it behind Apache httpd or nginx, and also a port-based firewall. I am most familiar with Apache httpd and Linux/RedHat family. Within the

Re: How to secure Admin UI with Basic Auth in Solr 5.3.x

If you are using Linux server you can always iptables to restrict access to solr admin panel. On Sep 9, 2015 3:05 PM, "Merlin Morgenstern" wrote: > I just installed solr cloud 5.3.x and found that the way to secure the amin > ui has changed. Aparently there is a new

Re: How to secure Admin UI with Basic Auth in Solr 5.3.x

Check this https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/solr/Securing+Solr There a couple of bugs in 5.3.o and a bug fix release is coming up over the next few days. We don't provide any specific means to restrict access to admin UI itself. However we let users specify fine grained ACLs on

How to secure Admin UI with Basic Auth in Solr 5.3.x

I just installed solr cloud 5.3.x and found that the way to secure the amin ui has changed. Aparently there is a new plugin which does role based authentification and all info on how to secure the admin UI found on the net is outdated. I do not need role based authentification but just simply