NiFi Authentication
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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 TLS/SSL for your NiFi services.

  • Enabling SSL with the NiFi CA
  • Enabling SSL with existing certificates

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.