Solr 5.3 is coming with proper basic auth support
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-7692 On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 5:28 PM, Peter Sturge <peter.stu...@gmail.com> wrote: > if you're using Jetty you can use the standard realms mechanism for Basic > Auth, and it works the same on Windows or UNIX. There's plenty of docs on > the Jetty site about getting this working, although it does vary somewhat > depending on the version of Jetty you're running (N.B. I would suggest > using Jetty 9, and not 8, as 8 is missing some key authentication classes). > If, when you execute a search query to your Solr instance you get a > username and password popup, then Jetty's auth is setup. If you don't then > something's wrong in the Jetty config. > > it's worth noting that if you're doing distributed searches Basic Auth on > its own will not work for you. This is because Solr sends distributed > requests to remote instances on behalf of the user, and it has no knowledge > of the web container's auth mechanics. We got 'round this by customizing > Solr to receive credentials and use them for authentication to remote > instances - SOLR-1861 is an old implementation for a previous release, and > there has been some significant refactoring of SearchHandler since then, > but the concept works well for distributed queries. > > Thanks, > Peter > > > > On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 11:18 AM, O. Klein <kl...@octoweb.nl> wrote: > >> Steven White wrote >> > Thanks for updating the wiki page. However, my issue remains, I cannot >> > get >> > Basic auth working. Has anyone got it working, on Windows? >> >> Doesn't work for me on Linux either. >> >> >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/Basic-auth-tp4218053p4218519.html >> Sent from the Solr - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> -- ----------------------------------------------------- Noble Paul
