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Authentication

Apache Ignite 3 provides basic Authentication capabilities.

Authentication Configuration

Basic Authentication

To start using basic authentication on the cluster, you need to enable it and create an initial administrator user. By default, the role that grants administrator permissions is called admin, but you can change it in cluster configuration.

Here is an example of configuration that initializes the cluster and enables security on it:

Prepare cluster configuration file with security configuration:

ignite {
  security {
    enabled:true
	authentication {
	  providers=[
	    {
          name=default
          type=basic
          users=[
            {
              displayName=administrator
              password="ignite"
              roles=[
                system
              ]
              username=ignite
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

Initialize the cluster with the security configuration:

cluster init --name=sampleCluster --config-files=/cluster-config.conf

When the cluster has been initialized, it has basic authorization configured for ignite user name and ignite password with system level access. However, by default security is disabled. To enable it:

cluster config update ignite.security.enabled=true

Warning

If you lose access to all accounts with system role, you will lose administrator access to the cluster.

After authorization is enabled, you will be disconnected from the cluster and must reconnect to the cluster:

connect http://127.0.0.1:10300 --username ignite --password ignite

You can change the password for the default user by updating cluster configuration, for example:

cluster config update  ignite.security.authentication.providers.default.users.ignite.password=myPass

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