How to disable Basic Authentification in Neo4j 2.2.1?

Question

Probably a stupid question, but how can I disable the basic authentification in the new Neo4j version? I looked up How to disable Basic Auth on Neo4j 2.2.0-RC01 but - a shame - I cannot find either the conf/neo4j-server.properties nor can I alter permamently the data/dbms/auth as mentioned in the manual. Every restart of Neo4J resets the auth-file to the previous content and delets my entries. I am using Windows 8 and in the Neo4j Community folder I cant find a way to set any properties.

As alternative I would appreciate a hint how to get the everyman_neo4j_client to send an authentification to the Neo4J DB, which would solve the problem as well and would be more secure anyway.

Maybe someone has a hint for me?

Answer 1

Taking a gander at the project, it looks like there is a setAuth method in the Transport class that you could use.

/**
 * Set username and password to use with HTTP Basic Auth
 *
 * Returns this Trnasport object
 *
 * @param string $username
 * @param string $password
 * @return Transport
 */
public function setAuth($username=null, $password=null)
{
    $this->username = $username;
    $this->password = $password;
    return $this;
}

You probably need to do something like this..

$transport = new Transport('localhost', 7474);
$transport->setAuth('neo4j', 'password')
$client = new Client( $transport );