Thanks! I’ll try BatchIQ. To be clear: I’m using the “community edition”, not paying for support: but hopefully this will be an easy response :)
Mike > On Aug 5, 2016, at 6:38 PM, James Wing <[email protected]> wrote: > > Michael, > > I believe the general issue you are experiencing in NiFi is the difference > between authentication and authorization. The UI is allowing you to request > and grant authorization (roles), but it is not providing authentication (a > password). In contrast, the login form is used for authentication, but the > data store behind it has no UI, only configuration files. > > You may find it helpful to ask BatchIQ for specifics on configuring your > instance, which may not be applicable to the general NiFi users list (I work > at BatchIQ, and I'm sure you'll get a response). > > Thanks, > > James > > > On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 6:01 PM, Michael Potts <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > Hi: I’m running a BatchIQ-provisioned NiFi instance: it’s configured with a > single (‘admin’) user. I want to add additional (non-admin) users. In the > NiFi admin docs I see this: > > When users want access to the NiFi UI, they navigate to the configured URL > and are prompted to request access. When someone has requested access, the > ADMIN user sees a star on the Users icon in the Management Toolbar, alerting > the ADMIN to the fact that a request is pending. Upon opening the User > Management Page, the pending request is visible, and the ADMIN can grant > access and click on the pencil icon to set the user’s roles appropriately. > > However, when I point (any) browser to my NiFi instance I just get the > standard login/password form, and any username other than ‘admin’ is > rejected. Am I doing it wrong? I guess I’m missing something obvious? Any > help gratefully appreciated! > > Thanks, > > Mike > > > PS. Related: the provisioned instance has an ec2-user account (with the > public key I specified when I provisioned it), but I don’t know how to su to > root, so I can’t poke around in /opt/nifi. Is this also obvious? > >
