Hi Matt Thank you very much, 100% clear and problem solved!
Happy New Year. John On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 9:51 PM, Matt Gilman <[email protected]> wrote: > John, > > The LDAP integration handles the user authentication. The > authorized-users.xml file will handle the user authorization. If your > directory server has an account with the DN > > cn=John Smith,ou=people,dc=example,dc=com > > and you log in as that user, NiFi will use that DN and look up the > corresponding roles in the authorized-users.xml. These two concerns > (authentication and authorization) have been decoupled and made extensible. > The provided implementations supporting LDAP lookups and user roles stored > in the local file. > > Let me know if that helps. > > Matt > > On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 4:22 PM, John Burns <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I have followed the instructions here >> >> >> https://community.hortonworks.com/articles/7341/nifi-user-authentication-with-ldap.html >> >> >> and here >> >> https://nifi.apache.org/docs/nifi-docs/html/administration-guide.html >> >> and have integrated LDAP with NiFi via HTTPS. This all works. >> >> The problem I have is that I cannot see how/what procedure to use when >> logging in as admin. The admin guide mentions >> >> <users> >> <user dn="cn=John Smith,ou=people,dc=example,dc=com"> >> <role name="ROLE_ADMIN"/> >> </user> >> </users> >> >> but I cannot see what username/password to supply to my nifi HTTPS >> instance. I am probably missing something very obvious but any help would >> be appreciated. >> >> Thanks >> >> John >> > >
