Unable to activate authentication: auth-enabled = true not working

1

Hi, I have followed instructions from:

Created two users admin/admin and user01/user01 as follow:
CREATE USER “admin” WITH PASSWORD ‘admin’ WITH ALL PRIVILEGES

sudo nano /etc/influxdb/influxdb.conf
auth-enabled = true (uncommented), saved
sudo reboot

But still can post and read data from influxDB with wrong credentials and no credentials at all.

Assistance welcome.
Paulo

2

If you run SHOW USERS, do you see the accounts listed?

3

Hi,

show users
user admin
admin true
user01 true

4

Okay. Can you walk me through the process you’re using after restarting the service?

Are you just restarting and then sending a request?

5

After I create the users and edit /etc/influxdb/influxdb.conf I just reboot the server.

To test I am using node-red
I set wrong username at node-red and expect it to fail but it keeps working.

6

Hi Katy, any other suggestion?
Thanks

7

I’m looking into some other things it can be. I’ll keep you updated!

8

Hi Katy.
Thanks
Paulo

9

One more thing to try:

It seems that the http line in the config has to uncommented as well.

So your config should look like this:

[http]
  # Determines whether HTTP endpoint is enabled.
   enabled = true

and NOT like

#[http]
  # Determines whether HTTP endpoint is enabled.
   enabled = true
10

Great, will try and report back.
Thanks

11

Dear Katy,
Just did the test and it is working great.

One note:
First I did uncomment the line
[http] and
auth-enabled = xxxx and then it did not work…
What a frustration…
What to do now?

But then I started to review the whole thing, and found that the line on the /etc/influxdb/influxdb.conf was originally:
auth-enabled = false

So one has to umcomment it and somehow see that it is not enough, one still have to see it should be changed to:
auth-enabled = true

Now it is working great,
Thanks a lot for your support

Paulo