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The following commit(s) were added to refs/heads/support/nifi-1.15 by this push: new 5e2df44 NIFI-9376 Updated Admin Guide removing reference to default password 5e2df44 is described below commit 5e2df44dcde4969244c66752e7740e2834071f45 Author: exceptionfactory <exceptionfact...@apache.org> AuthorDate: Fri Nov 12 15:29:30 2021 -0600 NIFI-9376 Updated Admin Guide removing reference to default password Signed-off-by: Pierre Villard <pierre.villard...@gmail.com> This closes #5519. --- nifi-docs/src/main/asciidoc/administration-guide.adoc | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/nifi-docs/src/main/asciidoc/administration-guide.adoc b/nifi-docs/src/main/asciidoc/administration-guide.adoc index 6de57a7..2e66b6e 100644 --- a/nifi-docs/src/main/asciidoc/administration-guide.adoc +++ b/nifi-docs/src/main/asciidoc/administration-guide.adoc @@ -1782,7 +1782,12 @@ Each Key Derivation Function uses the following default parameters: ** Block Size Factor (r): 8 ** Parallelization Factor (p): 1 -All options require a password (`nifi.sensitive.props.key` value) of *at least 12 characters*. This means the "default" value (if left empty, a hard-coded default is used) will not be sufficient. +All options require a password (`nifi.sensitive.props.key` value) of *at least 12 characters*. + +In new standalone installations of 1.14.0 or later, NiFi generates a random value when `nifi.sensitive.props.key` is +empty. NiFi writes the generated value to `nifi.properties` and logs a warning. + +Clustered installations of NiFi require the same value to be configured on all nodes. [[encrypt-config_tool]] == Encrypted Passwords in Configuration Files