Uwe, I do not believe NiFi supports simple username/password authentication today. But I have been working on a similar problem, and created a ticket for this (https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-1614). Any input you might be able to offer on the use case would be helpful.
Thanks, James On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 1:12 PM, Uwe Geercken <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello I would like to setup a simple username/password authentication. A > user has to specify the userid and a password to use the nifi web ui - > that's all. > > While there is a lot of information in the documentation, I am confused of > what is required and what not. > > in the file authority-providers.xml this is configured by default - I did > not change anything. > <provider> > <identifier>file-provider</identifier> > > <class>org.apache.nifi.authorization.FileAuthorizationProvider</class> > <property name="Authorized Users > File">./conf/authorized-users.xml</property> > <property name="Default User Roles"></property> > </provider> > > I think I have to configure this here in nifi.properties: > > nifi.web.https.host=localhost > nifi.web.https.port=??? > > host would be localhost but what should I configure for the port? any port? > > The file login-identity-providers has definitions for ldap-provider only, > but his is not my case. > > I have added following entry to authorized-users.xml > > <user dn="cn=Uwe Geercken,ou=people,dc=example,dc=com"> > <role name="ROLE_ADMIN"/> > </user> > > This would be my name, but I don't know if this is the correct format > (taken from the documentation) > > Any help would be appreciated to get me going. > > Regards, > > Uwe > > > >
