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Authentication error while securing Nifi

narasimha_varma — Sun, 18 Aug 2019 12:07:45 GMT

I am using hortonworks sandbox 2.4, While securing Nifi step_by_step, I used TinyCert to generate my own certificate authority and certificates and I download the client and server certificates in PKCS12 format. After that I created some changes in Nifi config --> nifi.properities as shown in the picture. Finally, I open the file authorized-users. xml, in the Nifi-conf directory and create an admin user based on the DN of the client certificate.

<users>

</user>

</users>

I follow this link https://community.hortonworks.com/articles/886/securing-nifi-step-by-step.html.

While I run Nifi under localhost:9090 I got error as shown in the picture

Re: Authentication error while securing Nifi

jgeorge — Sun, 18 Dec 2016 02:05:44 GMT

Hi Narasimma,

Few pointers,

--> If the configurations are done correctly and you have loaded your client certificate to your browser, you will only be able to view the NiFi UI via https://localhost:port not http://localhost:port like in your screenshot.

--> It looks like you are following the steps to get around it in an older version of HDF. Latest release, HDF-2.x gives us better ways to get SSL enabled with help of NiFi CA and tls-toolkit. please follow the below link for the same.(unfortunately you may not be able to do this in your sandbox where HDP is already installed)

https://community.hortonworks.com/articles/58009/hdf-20-enable-ssl-for-apache-nifi-from-ambari.html

--> In the Latest version we wont be using authorized-users.xml to configure user roles but instead an Initial Admin identity.

Thanks,

Jobin George

Re: Authentication error while securing Nifi

narasimha_varma — Mon, 19 Dec 2016 12:18:32 GMT

Thank you very much Jobin George