[SOLR-7896] Add a login page for Solr Administrative Interface

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 5.2.1
• Fix Version/s: 7.7, 8.0
• Component/s: Admin UI, Authentication, security
• Labels: authentication login password
• Assignee: Jan Høydahl
• Reporter: Aaron Greenspan
• Created: 07/Aug/15 04:45
• Updated: 02/Oct/19 17:23
• Resolved: 07/Jan/19 12:26

Description

Now that Solr supports Authentication plugins, the missing piece is to be allowed access from Admin UI when authentication is enabled. For this we need

• Some plumbing in Admin UI that allows the UI to detect 401 responses and redirect to login page
• Possibility to have multiple login pages depending on auth method and redirect to the correct one
• AngularJS HTTP interceptors to add correct HTTP headers on all requests when user is logged in

This issue should aim to implement some of the plumbing mentioned above, and make it work with Basic Auth.

Issue Links

• Is contained by: SOLR-7236 Securing Solr (umbrella issue)
• is duplicated by: SOLR-8402 Authentication Setting in admin UI interface
• is related to: SOLR-13345 Admin UI login page doesn't accept empty passwords
• is related to: SOLR-13344 Admin UI inaccessible with RuleBasedAuthorizationPlugin
• is required by: SOLR-13116 Add Admin UI login support for Kerberos
• links to: GitHub Pull Request #465