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[GitHub] [nifi] andrewmlim commented on a change in pull request #3495:
NIFI-5973 Adds ShellUserGroupProvider
andrewmlim commented on a change in pull request #3495: NIFI-5973 Adds ShellUserGroupProvider
URL: https://github.com/apache/nifi/pull/3495#discussion_r292589335
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File path: nifi-docs/src/main/asciidoc/administration-guide.adoc
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@@ -452,6 +452,27 @@ The LdapUserGroupProvider has the following properties:
NOTE: Any identity mapping rules specified in _nifi.properties_ will also be applied to the user identities. Group names are not mapped.
+==== ShellUserGroupProvider
+
+The ShellUserGroupProvider fetches user and group details from Unix-like systems using shell commands.
+
+This provider executes various shell pipelines with commands such as `getent` on Linux and `dscl` on MacOS.
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+Supported systems may be configured to retrieve users and groups from an external source, such as LDAP or NIS. In these cases the shell commands
+will return those external users and groups. This provides administrators another mechanism to integrate user and group directory services.
+
+The ShellUserGroupProvider has the following properties:
+
+[options="header,footer"]
+|==================================================================================================================================================
+| Property Name | Description
+|`Initial Refresh Delay` | Number of seconds to delay the initial user/group listing refresh.
+|`Refresh Delay` | Number of seconds to pause between each listing refresh.
+|==================================================================================================================================================
+
+Like LdapUserGroupProvider, the ShellUserGroupProvider is commented out in the _nifi.properties_ file. Refer to that comment for usage examples.
Review comment:
Should be _authorizers.xml_ file not _nifi.properties_
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