[nifi] branch support/nifi-1.15 updated: NIFI-9376 Updated Admin Guide removing reference to default password

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The following commit(s) were added to refs/heads/support/nifi-1.15 by this push:
     new 5e2df44  NIFI-9376 Updated Admin Guide removing reference to default password
5e2df44 is described below

commit 5e2df44dcde4969244c66752e7740e2834071f45
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 6de57a7..2e66b6e 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