Question: Are the authc authentication domain names used in the security plugins config.yml arbitrary strings?

[jaimie.livingston]

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Describe the issue:

General Question:

Are the authc authentication domain names used in the security plugins config.yml arbitrary strings?
The documentation is not clear. I suspect these are arbitrary strings, but I don’t want to make the assumption.

Configuring the Security backend

We’ve been using the domain name internal_users_domain in the authc configuration since since v2.0, but the v2.17 example configuration in github uses basic_internal_auth_domain where I would expect to see internal_users_domain. (Yes, I’m just noticing this. The config I’m using has been working for a good long while, and I haven’t had need to revisit it until now.)

opensearch-project/security/blob/main/config/config.yml#L101

Configuration:
security plugin, config.yml, authc section.

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[Mantas]

Hi @jaimie.livingston,

I would assume so - you can call it whatever you want as long as the type is correct, to illustrate here is the setup from my lab:

Best,
mj

[jaimie.livingston]

Thanks for the confirmation.
I suspected as much, but didn’t have an immediate way of testing this.

~Jaimie