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After Enabling the ssl in NIFI cluster its now showing up the user that logged into it ?

Jasthi — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:17:29 GMT

nifi-ssl.pngI have enabled SSL in NIFI cluster everything is seems to good but after logging into one of node its not showing up the user its suppose to be ?

For reference I have attached a image...

Could someone help on this ?

Re: After Enabling the ssl in NIFI cluster its now showing up the user that logged into it ?

Jasthi — Thu, 10 May 2018 21:26:27 GMT

@Arti Wadhwani

Re: After Enabling the ssl in NIFI cluster its now showing up the user that logged into it ?

MattWho — Thu, 10 May 2018 21:34:17 GMT

@Veerendra Nath Jasthi

Not sure I am following your question. The UI displays the user which is currently authenticated in to the UI.
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Are you not expecting to see "CN=niifiadmin, OU=HORTONWORKS"? What are you expecting to see?
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What forms of user authentication are you configured to use?
User/client certificate? <-- User name displayed in upper right comes from DN in user/client certificate
LDAP authentication? <-- User name can come from user DN in LDAP (USE_DN) or username entered in login window (USE_USERNAME)
Kerberos authentication? <-- User name comes from user entered principal. <user>@<domain> (so pretty sure you are not using kerberos for authentication.)

Thanks,

Matt

Re: After Enabling the ssl in NIFI cluster its now showing up the user that logged into it ?

Jasthi — Thu, 10 May 2018 21:40:25 GMT

I am expecting to see user name (CN=niifiadmin, OU=HORTONWORKS) at top right corner that I mentioned in the image of the first post.

I am using the User/client certificate that are generated by NiFi TLS-toolkit

Re: After Enabling the ssl in NIFI cluster its now showing up the user that logged into it ?

umair_khan — Thu, 10 May 2018 23:23:32 GMT

What user are you seeing logged in? Is logged in user same as one defined in file authorizers.xml > "Initial Admin Identiry" ?

Re: After Enabling the ssl in NIFI cluster its now showing up the user that logged into it ?

MattWho — Thu, 10 May 2018 23:57:12 GMT

@Veerendra Nath Jasthi

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The attached image shows that the user who is currently logged in as ""CN=niifiadmin, OU=HORTONWORKS". Your comment says you expect to see this and that is what is being shown, so I am little confused. Sorry if I am missing something here.

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Are you saying that you expected the UI to instead show ""CN=niifiadmin, OU=CLOUD.HORTONWORKS.COM"?

The UI is only going to display what is presented in the certificate being used for authentication.

Try performing a verbose listing on your client certificate to see what the actual DN is.
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Sharing your nifi-users.log, authorizers.xml, users.xml, and authorizations.xml files may shed some light on what is going on here.

also sharing the verbose output of your client cert would help.

Thanks,

Matt

Re: After Enabling the ssl in NIFI cluster its now showing up the user that logged into it ?

Jasthi — Fri, 11 May 2018 00:06:27 GMT

nifi-ssl-my-screen.pngI got you. the image I have attached is from different blog so like the image its not showing up for me when I am logged into any of nifi nodes.

The earlier image is reference and the one now I have attached is my screen shot .

I hope this clears your doubt & its my bad It wasn't clear in earlier posts .

Re: After Enabling the ssl in NIFI cluster its now showing up the user that logged into it ?

Jasthi — Fri, 11 May 2018 00:10:20 GMT

I couldn't see any user it was empty that is the problem.The earlier image is reference and the one now I have attached is my screen shot .

I hope this clears your doubt & its my bad It wasn't clear in earlier posts .

you can refer above image ( nifi-ssl-my-screen.png) that is my current screen shot & the one I mentioned earlier was reference that is nifi-ssl.png .

@Umair Khan

Re: After Enabling the ssl in NIFI cluster its now showing up the user that logged into it ?

MattWho — Fri, 11 May 2018 00:16:55 GMT

@Veerendra Nath Jasthi

The screenshot you just attached shows a non secure NiFi running over HTTP on port 9090. There is no user authentication that will occur for a unsecured NiFi. User authentication and authorization will only occur for a secured NiFi running over https.

Thanks,

Matt

Re: After Enabling the ssl in NIFI cluster its now showing up the user that logged into it ?

Jasthi — Fri, 11 May 2018 00:26:57 GMT

yup got it thanks.By mistake I have unchecked Enable SSL checkbox in NIFI config after checking back I could see them .

Thanks @Matt Clarke

Re: After Enabling the ssl in NIFI cluster its now showing up the user that logged into it ?

MattWho — Fri, 11 May 2018 00:29:35 GMT

@Veerendra Nath Jasthi

Glad to hear we got this all worked out... 🙂
Please take a moment to login and click the "accept" link for this answer to close out the thread.

Thank you,
Matt