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User authentication without LDAP or Kerberos

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Expert Contributor

Hello,

Is there a way to setup NiFi (HDF 0.x) to do user authentication through a local authentication? In the documentation the only examples that can be provided for the property:

nifi.security.user.login.identity.provider are ldap-provider and kerberos (both are not configured atm)

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Master Guru

There is no local authentication. NiFi provides authentication with 2-way SSL (certificates), Kerberos, or LDAP.

You can also implement your own identity provider to authenticate users however you like:

https://github.com/apache/nifi/blob/d1129706e235548daaf4eecf7001b244300761e9/nifi-framework-api/src/...

You would create a NAR with your implementation and put it in NiFI lib.

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Master Guru

There is no local authentication. NiFi provides authentication with 2-way SSL (certificates), Kerberos, or LDAP.

You can also implement your own identity provider to authenticate users however you like:

https://github.com/apache/nifi/blob/d1129706e235548daaf4eecf7001b244300761e9/nifi-framework-api/src/...

You would create a NAR with your implementation and put it in NiFI lib.

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Expert Contributor

Great, thanks for the quick response

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Rising Star

What do you mean by local authentication? Using Kerberos authentication, Apache NiFi supports using a local ticket via SPNEGO.

Apache NiFi 0.x (which maps to HDF 1.x) supports authentication using client certificates, LDAP, and Kerberos. This also applies to Apache NiFi 1.x.