Using passwordAuthentication for url based authentication

[aktasonur]

Authenticator.setDefault(new Auth(username, password)) is not working for secured url access. (i.e. RedisToGo hosted service url is something like redis://username:[email protected]:port)

Is there any workaround for this?

[debasishg]

Let me have a look at it over the weekend. Thanks for reporting.

[JakeHP]

Any update on this?

[debasishg]

Unfortunately not yet done .. will take a shot at the earliest.

[byrnedo]

Is there a solution for setting the password in the RedisClient? I'm using 0.7 and don't see any password variable there

[debasishg]

Unfortunately it fell through the cracks :-( .. I will try to take a look over the weekend.

[byrnedo]

Thanks, much appreciated!

[byrnedo]

Just see that I could just use the auth command. Maybe that suffices?

[debasishg]

auth command is usable, as it's one of the APIs supported now (https://github.com/debasishg/scala-redis-nb/blob/master/src/main/scala/com/redis/api/ConnectionOperations.scala#L26) .. Let me know if this works for you. Or you are looking for something else ..

[byrnedo]

After looking at what would be involved, it would be nice if the RedisClient could accept the secret/password and send the auth command on connect. Would it be a lot to implement this?

[debasishg]

The problem is to run any command from within RedisClient I need to get hold of an ActorSystem, ExecutionContext and things like that.

[byrnedo]

If I were to use the auth command in my own code, have you any suggestions about best practice? Does the auth 'session' time out? If so then wouldn't I need to catch some kind of exception and retry the auth command while buffering the mongo requests in the mean time?

[debasishg]

Use auth just like any other command. The timeout is handled by an entry in redis.conf named timeout - setting it to 0 will disable the timeout between the client and the server.