Hi, Which Kafka version you are using? SASL/PLAIN support is available from Kafka 0.10.0.0 release onwards.
Thanks Manikumar On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 4:22 PM, cs user <acldstk...@gmail.com> wrote: > Apologies, just to me clear, my broker settings are actually as below, > using PLAINTEXT throughout > > listeners=SASL_PLAINTEXT://host.name:port > security.inter.broker.protocol=SASL_PLAINTEXT > sasl.mechanism.inter.broker.protocol=PLAIN > sasl.enabled.mechanisms=PLAIN > > > On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 11:50 AM, cs user <acldstk...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > I'm dipping my toes into kafka security, I'm following the guide here: > > > http://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html#security_sasl_plain_brokerconfig > > and > http://kafka.apache.org/documentation.html#security_sasl_brokerconfig > > > > My jaas config file looks like: > > > > KafkaServer { > > org.apache.kafka.common.security.plain.PlainLoginModule required > > username="admin" > > password="admin-secret" > > user_admin="admin-secret" > > user_alice="alice-secret"; > > }; > > > > I pass the following to kafka on startup to load the above in: > > > > -Djava.security.auth.login.config=/etc/kafka/kafka_server_jaas.conf > > > > > > I'm using the following for my broker settings, using PLAINTEXT > throughout: > > > > listeners=SASL_PLAINTEXT://host.name:port > > security.inter.broker.protocol=SASL_SSL > > sasl.mechanism.inter.broker.protocol=PLAIN > > sasl.enabled.mechanisms=PLAIN > > > > > > > > However when kafka starts up I get the following error message: > > > > Caused by: javax.security.auth.login.LoginException: unable to find > > LoginModule class: > org.apache.kafka.common.security.plain.PlainLoginModule > > > > Any idea why I would be getting this error? > > > > Thanks! > > >