Feature Request: Auth Setup Exception Enhancement

[lYlantis]

Not sure if you take feature requests, but this was a pain point that I ran into when installing Malcolm.

When I am setting up Malcolm using auth_setup, there are certain files/options that have to be configured or else you get an exception:

~/malcolm/malcolm$ ./scripts/start 
1: all - Configure all authentication-related settings
2: method - Select authentication method (currently "no_authentication")
3: admin - Store administrator username/password for basic HTTP authentication
4: webcerts - (Re)generate self-signed certificates for HTTPS access
5: fwcerts - (Re)generate self-signed certificates for a remote log forwarder
6: localos - (Re)generate internal passwords for local primary OpenSearch instance
7: email - Store username/password for OpenSearch Alerting email sender account
8: netbox - (Re)generate internal passwords for NetBox
9: postgres - (Re)generate internal superuser passwords for PostgreSQL
10: redis - (Re)generate internal passwords for Redis
11: arkime - Store password hash secret for Arkime viewer cluster
12: txfwcerts - Transfer self-signed client certificates to a remote log forwarder
Configure Authentication (all): 1

Select authentication method (currently "no_authentication")? (Y / n): Y
1: basic - Use basic HTTP authentication
2: ldap - Use Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) for authentication
3: keycloak - Use embedded Keycloak for authentication
4: keycloak_remote - Use remote Keycloak for authentication
5: no_authentication - Disable authentication
Select authentication method (no_authentication): 5

Store administrator username/password for basic HTTP authentication? (Y / n): n

(Re)generate self-signed certificates for HTTPS access? (Y / n): Y

(Re)generate self-signed certificates for a remote log forwarder? (Y / n): Y

(Re)generate internal passwords for local primary OpenSearch instance? (Y / n): Y

Store username/password for OpenSearch Alerting email sender account? (y / N): N

(Re)generate internal passwords for NetBox? (Y / n): Y

Internal passwords for netbox already exist. Overwriting them will break access to a populated netbox database. Are you sure? (y / N): y

(Re)generate internal superuser passwords for PostgreSQL? (Y / n): Y

Internal passwords for postgres already exist. Overwriting them will break access to a populated postgres database. Are you sure? (y / N): y

(Re)generate internal passwords for Redis? (Y / n): Y

Store password hash secret for Arkime viewer cluster? (Y / n): n

Transfer self-signed client certificates to a remote log forwarder? (y / N): N
Exception: Files relating to authentication and/or secrets are missing, please run ./scripts/auth_setup to generate them

The issue for me was that I had to select y for Store administrator username/password for basic HTTP authentication? (Y / n): or it would generate that exception everytime, even with no_authentication selected. It would be helpful if the error indicated what files/options were missing.

[mmguero]

Thanks for the suggestion, you're right, the errors should be more specific as to what's actually missing (or, even better, smarter about what's required or not, in your no_authentication case. I've logged #865 to improve this.