You understand that disabling the admin API will leave you with an 
unmaintainable Solr installation, right? You might not even be able to diagnose 
the problem.

wunder
Walter Underwood
wun...@wunderwood.org
http://observer.wunderwood.org/  (my blog)

> On Oct 5, 2015, at 11:34 AM, Siddhartha Singh Sandhu <sandhus...@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> Help please?
> 
> On Sun, Oct 4, 2015 at 5:07 PM, Siddhartha Singh Sandhu <
> sandhus...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Shawn and Andrew,
>> 
>> I am on page with you guys about the ssh authentication and communicating
>> with the API's that SOLR has to provide. I simply don't want the GUI as it
>> is nobody will be able to access it once I set the policy on my server
>> except for servers in the same network. Also, now that we are on that
>> issue, does SOLR URL's have checks to guard against penetration attacks as
>> the "prod setup" guide is so openly available?
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Sid.
>> 
>> On Sun, Oct 4, 2015 at 4:55 AM, Andrea Open Source <
>> andrearoggerone.o...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> As Shawn is saying, disabling the Admin interface is not the right way to
>>> go. If you just disable the admin interface users could still run queries
>>> and you don't want that. The solution that you're looking for, is enabling
>>> the ssh authentication so only the users with the right certificate can
>>> query Solr or reach the admin.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> King Regards,
>>> Andrea Roggerone
>>> 
>>>> On 04/ott/2015, at 08:11, Shawn Heisey <apa...@elyograg.org> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> On 10/3/2015 9:17 PM, Siddhartha Singh Sandhu wrote:
>>>>> I want to disable the admin interface in SOLR. I understand that
>>>>> authentication is available in the solrcloud mode but until that
>>> happens I
>>>>> want to disable the admin interface in my prod environment.
>>>>> 
>>>>> How can I do this?
>>>> 
>>>> Why do you need to disable the admin interface?  The admin interface is
>>>> just a bunch of HTML, CSS, and Javascript.  It downloads code that runs
>>>> inside your browser and turns it into a tool that can manipulate Solr.
>>>> 
>>>> The parts of Solr that need protecting are the APIs that the admin
>>>> interface calls.  When authentication is enabled in the newest Solr
>>>> versions, it is not the admin interface that is protected, it is those
>>>> APIs called by the admin interface.  Anyone can use those APIs directly,
>>>> completely independent of the interface.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks
>>>> Shawn
>>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> 

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