RE: Admin Login

2015-08-17 Thread Davis, Daniel (NIH/NLM) [C]
I place Apache Solr behind Apache httpd with a pure HTTP reverse proxy, since most of the time it will be used as an API. I use mod_auth_cas to protect the general /solr URL, requiring a login that refers to our common Jasiq CAS server, which in turns connects to our Microsoft Active Directory

RE: Admin Login

2015-08-17 Thread Davis, Daniel (NIH/NLM) [C]
org Subject: Re: Admin Login Scott: You better not even let them access Solr directly. http://server:port/solr/admin/collections?ACTION=delete&name=collection. Try it sometime on a collection that's not important ;) But as Walter said, that'd be similar to allowing end us

Re: Admin Login

2015-08-16 Thread Scott Derrick
Erik, After Walters reply I started thinking along the lines you mentioned and realized the folly of doing that! Scott On 8/15/2015 9:57 PM, Erick Erickson wrote: Scott: You better not even let them access Solr directly. http://server:port/solr/admin/collections?ACTION=delete&name=collect

Re: Admin Login

2015-08-15 Thread Erick Erickson
Scott: You better not even let them access Solr directly. http://server:port/solr/admin/collections?ACTION=delete&name=collection. Try it sometime on a collection that's not important ;) But as Walter said, that'd be similar to allowing end users unrestricted access to a SOL database, t

Re: Admin Login

2015-08-15 Thread Scott Derrick
Walter, actually that explains it perfectly! I will move behind my apache server... thanks, Scott On 8/15/2015 6:15 PM, Walter Underwood wrote: No one runs a public-facing Solr server. Just like no one runs a public-facing MySQL server. wunder Walter Underwood wun...@wunderwood.org http://

Re: Admin Login

2015-08-15 Thread Walter Underwood
No one runs a public-facing Solr server. Just like no one runs a public-facing MySQL server. wunder Walter Underwood wun...@wunderwood.org http://observer.wunderwood.org/ (my blog) On Aug 15, 2015, at 4:15 PM, Scott Derrick wrote: > I'm somewhat puzzled there is no built in security. I can'