NiFi Authentication

NiFi will not support any form of client/user authentication unless TLS/SSL has been enabled. After you have installed Ambari and the HDF stack, you have a 2 options for enabling SSL for your NiFi services.

You can use the NiFi service Configs tab Advanced nifi-ambari-ssl-config dialog to configure security for these options.

To access the NiFi SSL configuration dialog:

1. From the Ambari services column, click NiFi.
2. Click the Configs tabs.
3. Click Advanced nifi-ambari-ssl-config.