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No applicable policies for Initial Admin when removing authorizations.xml

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I successfully started an instance of NiFi 1.12.1 with LDAP authentication. I created some flows and scripts to use NiFi. To imitate deploying NiFi to a higher enviornment, I decided to backup my conf folder and replace it with a fresh unedited conf folder but replace nifi.properties, authorizers.xml and login-identity-providers.xml with my old ones.
When logging into NiFi I encountered the error: 
"No applicable policies found. Contact the system administrator."

The authorizations.xml file is empty/had no permissions created for the initial admin identity.
If I rollback to my original conf folder, NiFi allows me to login successfully. 

Some posts I had found online had lead me to believe that I can remove authorizations.xml to force NiFi to reinitialize the authorizations.xml file but it looks like its not the case.

I also tried to create an second copy of NiFi to test this behaviour on another server and I saw the same results. It looks like I will not be able to create NiFi on higher environments because the authorizations.xml is not getting initialized correctly.

Any advice on how to proceed?
@pvillard 

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Looks like this was an issue with NiFi 1.12.1. I cannot reproduce with NiFi 1.14.1.

Will test with NiFi 1.13.2 when I have time.