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Design Details
Prerequisite
- At most ONE user can be created for a milvus instance.
- SDK clients MUST encrypt password when connecting to milvus service.
- Milvus create default user root as an initial user to create other users.
Authentication Workflow
Since grpc requests all handled by proxy, we will do the authentication in the proxy component. Logging on to the milvus instance will follow the processes below：
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To be compatible with preview version, Milvus will detect the records on credentials path in etcd whether users are created for the milvus instance. If there are non users, use a toggle for it. If the toggle is on, it will check the credentials for each grpc call, otherwise it acts like the non-authenticate mode. Otherwise it will check the credentials for each grpc call.
Test Plan
Case 1: create credentials for milvus
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