Can't get NativeAuthenticator to work

From a default install which worked fine, I did

sudo tljh-config set auth.type nativeauthenticator.NativeAuthenticator
sudo tljh-config reload

That didn’t work (could not log in as admin anymore, and there was no difference in the login screen). The log obtained with journalctl -u jupyterhub does not show anything when attempting to log in.

Lacking logs, I also tried

git clone https://github.com/jupyterhub/nativeauthenticator.git
cd nativeauthenticator
pip install -e .

as instructed at https://native-authenticator.readthedocs.io/en/latest/quickstart.html (in the hope that my install did not work because I simply did not have nativeauthenticator yet). That did not work either, unfortunately.

Any pointers? What is the correct procedure, and how can I get some more logging info out of tljh so I can debug things like this in the future myself? Thanks!

[ibayer]

Adding the file /opt/tljh/config/jupyterhub_config.d/native_auth.py allowed me to sign up with admin user admin.

cat /opt/tljh/config/jupyterhub_config.d/native_auth.py 
c.JupyterHub.authenticator_class = 'nativeauthenticator.NativeAuthenticator'
c.Authenticator.admin_users = {'admin'}

To understand why this works I found the following link very helpful: https://tljh.jupyter.org/en/latest/topic/escape-hatch.html#extending-jupyterhub-config-py btw I didn’t have to install NativeAuthenticator separately.

Thanks for providing tljh!

[leportella]

I just uploaded the last master version to pip: https://pypi.org/project/jupyterhub-nativeauthenticator/0.0.5/

CHANGELOG: https://github.com/jupyterhub/nativeauthenticator/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md