Re: Shield doesn't support third party plugins

2015-01-28 Thread Tim S
Thanks Uri, that helps, it makes a lot of sense. On Wednesday, January 28, 2015 at 10:50:17 AM UTC, uboness wrote: Tim, We're in the process of clarifying this in the docs (agreed that the current description is not really clear). Let me try to clarify it a bit here... When it comes to

Re: Shield doesn't support third party plugins

2015-01-28 Thread Mark Walkom
You should contact Elasticsearch support regarding this. On 28 January 2015 at 20:27, Tim S timsti...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/shield/current/limitations.html says that Third-party plugins are not supported on clusters with the Shield security plugin installed.

Re: Shield doesn't support third party plugins

2015-01-28 Thread uboness
Tim, We're in the process of clarifying this in the docs (agreed that the current description is not really clear). Let me try to clarify it a bit here... When it comes to third party plugins, we have no control over the plugin code. The plugin infrastructure is extremely flexible in terms of

Re: Shield doesn't support third party plugins

2015-01-28 Thread joergpra...@gmail.com
As a plugin author, is there any chance to use something like a suite of tests or a compatibility kit in order to validate a plugin for being compatible with Shield / a specific Shield version? Jörg On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 11:50 AM, uboness uri.bon...@elasticsearch.com wrote: Tim, We're in