Details
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Task
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Status: Investigating
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Major - P3
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Resolution: Unresolved
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Security
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Security 2023-04-03
Description
SERVER-46399 removed SCRAM-SHA-1 as an implicit auth mechanism for intra-cluster authentication - when an attempt is now made to authenticate using SCRAM-SHA-1 with the local.__system user, the following misleading error is reported:
“AuthenticationFailed: It is not possible to authenticate as the __system user on servers started without a --keyFile parameter”
We should improve the error message to be less confusing by failing the request earlier, e.g. in this block: