Authorization with Ranger

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Creating Policies to View NiFi

To allow users to view the NiFi UI, create the following policies for each host:

/flow – read
/proxy – read/write

To create policies:

From the Ranger console, click the NiFi Ranger plugin.
From the List of Policies page, click Add New Policy.
In the Policy Details dialog, create the /flow and /proxy policies.
To create the /flow policy:
1. Provide the following information:
  - Policy Name – /flow
  - NiFi Resource Identifier- /flow
  - Select Users and Groups you want to immediately add.
  - Add Read permission
2. Click Add.
To create the /proxy policy:
1. Provide the following information:
  - Policy Name – /proxy
  - NiFi Resource Identifier- /proxy
  - Select Users and Groups you want to immediately add.
  - Add Read and Write permissions.
2. Click Add.