Disable ACL or Auth using docker

[dufourc]

Situation

This plugin manage both ACL and Authentication through http. One can be deactivated by commenting the unused options in the config file. However using emqx in docker (https://github.com/emqx/emqx-rel/tree/master/deploy/docker), the configuration are set from environment variables with no possibility to comment unused config.

Possible solution

Changing the way docker is setting variables to add a way to comment lines looks overkill and not the proper solution. (This is done here: https://github.com/emqx/emqx-rel/blob/master/deploy/docker/docker-entrypoint.sh#L122).

What do you think about having new variables to enable ACL and auth with a default value equals true? Something like this:

• auth.http.auth_enabled = true
• auth.http.acl_enabled = true

[dufourc]

Actually I'm wrong, this is working fine when passing an empty string for the environment variables such as

• EMQX_AUTH__HTTP__SUPER_REQ=
• EMQX_AUTH__HTTP__SUPER_REQ__METHOD=
• EMQX_AUTH__HTTP__SUPER_REQ__PARAMS=
• EMQX_AUTH__HTTP__ACL_REQ=
• EMQX_AUTH__HTTP__ACL_REQ__METHOD=
• EMQX_AUTH__HTTP__ACL_REQ__PARAMS=

Thanks to this line: https://github.com/emqx/emqx-rel/blob/master/deploy/docker/docker-entrypoint.sh#L137.

Maybe I've missed something in the documentation otherwise I'm happy to create a PR to add some docs about how to comment a variable line in here: https://github.com/emqx/emqx-rel/tree/master/deploy/docker. If yes let me know where I can find 'how to contribute' for this repo.

[HJianBo]

Hi @dufourc Thank you for carefully verifying this content. 'How to Contribute' document in preparation...

btw, after v4.2.0, All you have to do is comment these lines:

• EMQX_AUTH__HTTP__SUPER_REQ=
• EMQX_AUTH__HTTP__ACL_REQ=

[dufourc]

Thanks @HJianBo !