LDAP: constantly trying to authenticate user 'admin'

flob — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 06:43:07 GMT

Hi there!During the past months I found a lot of helpful information in these forums and posted some solutions back to the community. For my current problem, I wasn't able to get a single clue so far. Maybe some of you could help me out ops: I was able to configure Alfresco (3.4d CE, Tomcat 6, S

Re: LDAP: constantly trying to authenticate user 'admin'

flob — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 11:02:50 GMT

And while trying to solve a partly different problem I found the solution to my own question.

The reason for this behaviour is the fact that I tried to authenticate against LDAP exclusively.
But some subsystems of Alfresco depend on the admin-Account and - exclusively LDAP, you remember - tried to authenticate against a non-existing admin-Account in LDAP, again and again.

So I chained LDAP and AlfrescoNtlm for a fallback, if a user is not found in LDAP he/she is looked up locally in Alfresco's user db.
Then I created a particular service user wcmqs_user and provided its credentials within the following files (search for admin and its initial password):


<ALF>/tomcat/shared/classes/alfresco/extension/wqsapi-custom.properties
<ALF>/virtual-tomcat/conf/alfresco-virtserver.properties
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