You don't need to have NiFi secured with Kerberos in order to use HDFS processors talking to kerberized HDFS.
You just need to specify the krb5.conf in nifi.properties, and you need to provide the HDFS processors with a core-site.xml that has security set to kerberos. On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 9:28 AM Darren Govoni <dar...@ontrenet.com> wrote: > > Hi, > I want to test the HDFS processors using Kerberos, but they trigger a > warning saying Nifi is not running in secure mode, so it ignores kerberos. > > In order to get Nifi into secure mode I had to enable SPNEGO which it seems > to want a kerberos header to allow me into the app now. > > Is there a way to allow processors to run securely with kerberos without > having to auth myself into the app via kerberos? Which I'm not sure how to do. > > Darren > > PS. I do have a Apache Kerby KDC running locally if that can help me auth > into Nifi.
