Basic Auth-Filter-Extension for Neo4j-Server

Just put the jar-file into plugins and add the following lines to the conf/neo4j-server.properties file. The username:password combination are the admin credentials, please change as appropriate.

org.neo4j.server.credentials=username:password
org.neo4j.server.thirdparty_jaxrs_classes=org.neo4j.server.extension.auth=/auth

Manage the credentials by sending POST requests to the http://server:port/auth endpoint.

List existing users

GET http://server:port/auth/list

returns data in the form {"user:pass":"RW", "user2:pass2":"RO"}

curl --user username:password http://localhost:7474/auth/list

Adding users with form-param: user=username:password

POST http://server:port/auth/add-user-ro
POST http://server:port/auth/add-user-rw

returns "OK" on success

curl --user username:password -d "user=username1:password1" http://localhost:7474/auth/add-user-rw
curl --user username:password -d "user=username2:password2" http://localhost:7474/auth/add-user-ro

Removing users with form-param: user=username:password

POST http://server:port/auth/remove-user  

curl --user username:password -d "user=username2:password2" http://localhost:7474/auth/remove-user

returns "OK" on success

Download of precompiled jars

• authentication-extension-1.9-SNAPSHOT-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
• authentication-extension-1.9-SNAPSHOT-1.0-SNAPSHOT-server-plugin.zip
• authentication-extension/authentication-extension-2.0.4-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
• authentication-extension/authentication-extension-2.1.5-1.0-SNAPSHOT.jar