[nifi] branch main updated: NIFI-9376 Updated Admin Guide removing reference to default password

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     new 8a85e5c  NIFI-9376 Updated Admin Guide removing reference to default password
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commit 8a85e5c16f5857766bc1ac3b7eb618a79155ba81
Author: exceptionfactory <ex...@apache.org>
AuthorDate: Fri Nov 12 15:29:30 2021 -0600

    NIFI-9376 Updated Admin Guide removing reference to default password
    
    Signed-off-by: Pierre Villard <pi...@gmail.com>
    
    This closes #5519.
---
 nifi-docs/src/main/asciidoc/administration-guide.adoc | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/nifi-docs/src/main/asciidoc/administration-guide.adoc b/nifi-docs/src/main/asciidoc/administration-guide.adoc
index 5508b90..516800f 100644
--- a/nifi-docs/src/main/asciidoc/administration-guide.adoc
+++ b/nifi-docs/src/main/asciidoc/administration-guide.adoc
@@ -1782,7 +1782,12 @@ Each Key Derivation Function uses the following default parameters:
 ** Block Size Factor (r): 8
 ** Parallelization Factor (p): 1
 
-All options require a password (`nifi.sensitive.props.key` value) of *at least 12 characters*. This means the "default" value (if left empty, a hard-coded default is used) will not be sufficient.
+All options require a password (`nifi.sensitive.props.key` value) of *at least 12 characters*.
+
+In new standalone installations of 1.14.0 or later, NiFi generates a random value when `nifi.sensitive.props.key` is
+empty. NiFi writes the generated value to `nifi.properties` and logs a warning.
+
+Clustered installations of NiFi require the same value to be configured on all nodes.
 
 [[encrypt-config_tool]]
 == Encrypted Passwords in Configuration Files