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Alfresco Share 4.0.d - External Authentication

wilayers — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:33:32 GMT

Hi,I want to test the external authentication in Alfresco Share 4.0.d with the mod_auth_cas but it doesn't work.My installation works with a Alfresco Share 3.4.4.I kept my installation of Apache and mod_auth_cas. I just reinstalled the Alfresco in 4.0.d.In alfresco-global.properties, I added the pro

Re: Alfresco Share 4.0.d - External Authentication

wilayers — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 10:19:06 GMT

No one has tested the external authentication?

Re: Alfresco Share 4.0.d - External Authentication

mboorshtein — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 21:48:26 GMT

I'm having the exact same issue. Have you had any luck? I think I see what the issue is and it might be a bug. When I do a packet trace I see the "touch" to get the cookie:

GET /alfresco/wcs/touch HTTP/1.1
x-alfresco-remote-user: mboorshtein
User-Agent: Jakarta Commons-HttpClient/3.1
Host: localhost.localdomain:8080

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
Set-Cookie: JSESSIONID=8370A75CF2BEB70FFD94EA77ACF7D653; Path=/alfresco
Content-Length: 0
Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2012 21:39:50 GMT‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍‍

So share is sending the correct header and explorer is responding with the correct jsessionid cookie but on the subsequent request:

GET /alfresco/wcs/api/admin/restrictions?guest=true HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: Jakarta Commons-HttpClient/3.1
Host: localhost.localdomain:8080

HTTP/1.1 302 Moved Temporarily
Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
Set-Cookie: JSESSIONID=377A7069B4485E5A2BE833A1B6238187; Path=/alfresco
Location: http://localhost.localdomain:8080/alfresco/faces/jsp/login.jsp?_alfRedirect=%2Falfresco%2Fwcs%2Fapi%2Fadmin%2Frestrictions%3Fguest%3Dtrue
Content-Length: 0
Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2012 21:39:50 GMT
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Share isn't sending the cookie or the header so alfresco is just "forgetting" the login.

Re: Alfresco Share 4.0.d - External Authentication

mboorshtein — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 15:50:50 GMT

it looks like there's a bug with how share works with alfresco with external users. If you change

authentication.chain=external1:external‍

external1:external,alfrescoNtlm1:alfrescoNtlm‍

and restart tomcat it will work.Here's the Jira issue: https://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ALF-13194

Thanks
Marc

Re: Alfresco Share 4.0.d - External Authentication

wilayers — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 13:30:16 GMT

Thank you very much.