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Removing guest user breaks alfresco on Jboss

creative77 — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 20:44:24 GMT

type Exception reportmessagedescription The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request.exceptionorg.alfresco.error.AlfrescoRuntimeException: Failed to authenticate as Guest user. org.alfresco.web.app.servlet.AuthenticationHelper.authenticate(Authenticati

Re: Removing guest user breaks alfresco on Jboss

andy — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 13:04:21 GMT

Hi

Are you trying to login as guest at the login prompt?

This is currently not supported.

Regards

Andy

Re: Removing guest user breaks alfresco on Jboss

creative77 — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 13:46:56 GMT

No, when I deleted the guest user from the database. I know this is not the correct practice, I now get a nasty exception saying no guest user account when I enter the URL.

Somehow it knows that the guest account is no longer in the database and it must require it to be there. I have tried to recreate the account to no avail, I still get the exception.

I guess my question is how to resolve this problem because I can no longer bring up alfresco. Seems odd that the code would even be checking this before an authentication attempt, also where else would the users accounts or references to users be stored.

When I first saw Alfresco I was impressed but, the more I find out about the difficulties in customization, documentation, supporting community I have lost alot of the excitement.

Re: Removing guest user breaks alfresco on Jboss

andy — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 15:00:00 GMT

Hi

If you use

http://localhost:8080/alfresco

It will try and authenticate as guest.

Try,

http://localhost:8080/alfresco/faces/jsp/login.jsp

which should give you the login prompt.

Regards

Andy

Re: Removing guest user breaks alfresco on Jboss

steve — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 13:58:05 GMT

Hello,

You can disable guest access - this is the recommended way of stopping people connecting as guest.

More info here: http://forums.alfresco.com/viewtopic.php?t=1096

Steve