RE: user solr created by install not working with default password

2019-12-11 Thread Nguyen, Khuong (Dominic) (CSRA)
linux user solr does not have a password stored as it's a service account so "su solr" would not work. -Original Message- From: Jörn Franke Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2019 4:46 PM To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org Subject: Re: user solr created by install not working wi

Re: user solr created by install not working with default password

2019-12-11 Thread Jörn Franke
Even for in-house without no outside access you should have authentication and https. There can be a tiny misconfiguration somewhere else not controlled by you and you face suddenly a big open leak. Never do this - not even for development environments (here another important aspect is if there

Re: user solr created by install not working with default password

2019-12-11 Thread rhys J
> That page talks about setting up authentication for HTTP access to the > Solr API. It has nothing at all to do with the OS user created by the > service install script. > > When the service install creates the OS user for the service, it is > created in such a way that its password is disabled.

Re: user solr created by install not working with default password

2019-12-11 Thread Shawn Heisey
On 12/11/2019 9:17 AM, rhys J wrote: When I try to su solr, using the password mentioned here: https://lucidworks.com/post/securing-solr-basic-auth-permission-rules/, i get an authentication failure. That page talks about setting up authentication for HTTP access to the Solr API. It has nothi