Is there any way to provide authentication for riak database?

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I want to authenticate riak node with a username and a password like we normally do authentication for SQL databases.

Brian Roach · Accepted Answer · 2014-01-30T06:17:05.230

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Riak has no built-in authentication or authorization mechanism, as it was designed to be used in private networks and to be simple to configure. If you are using the REST API, we recommend inserting a reverse-proxy between Riak and the client that can handle the authentication. Members of the community have used nginx and Apache for this purpose.

In the future this may change (it is something on our long term roadmap) but probably not at least until a year from now.

Update 1/29/2014: Riak 2.0, currently in tech preview and slated for release end of Q1/2014 has authentication and user access controls.

edited Jan 30 '14 at 06:17

answered Feb 01 '13 at 17:11

Brian Roach

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Thank you, i will try to do reverse-proxy implementation between riak and nodejs. – Ashok Feb 02 '13 at 07:14

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 03 '14 at 11:05

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You can use authentication modules or pre-commit hooks

Commit hooks is simple for username:password authentication.

answered Feb 03 '14 at 11:05

user716710

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Is there any way to provide authentication for riak database?

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