Access Policies providers This section provides information on access policies providers. Ranger AuthorizationLeverage Apache Ranger access policies to administer permissions for groups or individual users. File-Based AuthorizationWhen Ranger is not selected as a dependency during installation, NiFi or NiFi Registry’s internal file-based authorizer will be used for authorization.Migrate file-based authorization to RangerBoth NiFi and NiFi Registry services have the option to convert existing file-based provider policies to Ranger provider policies.Parent topic: Authorization