Hello. I've just installed Alfresco, and I'm trying to use Active Directory for auth via LDAP.It seems to take my user / pass now, however I get a stacktrace instead of the usual dashboard.Any idea what might be causing this?
HTTP Status 500 -
type Exception report
message
description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request.
exception
javax.servlet.ServletException: org.alfresco.web.site.exception.RequestContextException: Exception running UserFactory in HttpRequestContextFactory
org.alfresco.web.site.servlet.DispatcherServlet.service(DispatcherServlet.java:130)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
root cause
org.alfresco.web.site.exception.RequestContextException: Exception running UserFactory in HttpRequestContextFactory
org.alfresco.web.site.DefaultRequestContextFactory.newInstance(DefaultRequestContextFactory.java:117)
org.alfresco.web.site.FrameworkHelper.initRequestContext(FrameworkHelper.java:188)
org.alfresco.web.site.servlet.DispatcherServlet.service(DispatcherServlet.java:126)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
root cause
org.alfresco.web.site.exception.UserFactoryException: Unable to retrieve user from repository
org.alfresco.web.site.AlfrescoUserFactory.loadUser(AlfrescoUserFactory.java:250)
org.alfresco.web.site.UserFactory.faultUser(UserFactory.java:169)
org.alfresco.web.site.UserFactory.faultUser(UserFactory.java:110)
org.alfresco.web.site.DefaultRequestContextFactory.newInstance(DefaultRequestContextFactory.java:93)
org.alfresco.web.site.FrameworkHelper.initRequestContext(FrameworkHelper.java:188)
org.alfresco.web.site.servlet.DispatcherServlet.service(DispatcherServlet.java:126)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
root cause
org.alfresco.web.site.exception.UserFactoryException: Unable to create user - failed to retrieve user metadata:
org.alfresco.web.site.AlfrescoUserFactory.loadUser(AlfrescoUserFactory.java:159)
org.alfresco.web.site.UserFactory.faultUser(UserFactory.java:169)
org.alfresco.web.site.UserFactory.faultUser(UserFactory.java:110)
org.alfresco.web.site.DefaultRequestContextFactory.newInstance(DefaultRequestContextFactory.java:93)
org.alfresco.web.site.FrameworkHelper.initRequestContext(FrameworkHelper.java:188)
org.alfresco.web.site.servlet.DispatcherServlet.service(DispatcherServlet.java:126)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
note The full stack trace of the root cause is available in the Apache Tomcat/6.0.18 logs.
Here's the ldap-authentication.properties
ldap.authentication.userNameFormat=%s@ad
# The LDAP context factory to use
ldap.authentication.java.naming.factory.initial=com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtxFactory
# The URL to connect to the LDAP server
ldap.authentication.java.naming.provider.url=ldap://adserveraddress:389
# The authentication mechanism to use
#ldap.authentication.java.naming.security.authentication=DIGEST-MD5
ldap.authentication.java.naming.security.authentication=simple
# The default principal to use (only used for LDAP sync)
ldap.authentication.java.naming.security.principal=apache@ad
# The password for the default principal (only used for LDAP sync)
ldap.authentication.java.naming.security.credentials=****
# Escape commas entered by the user at bind time
# Useful when using simple authentication and the CN is part of the DN and contains commas
ldap.authentication.escapeCommasInBind=false
# Escape commas entered by the user when setting the authenticated user
# Useful when using simple authentication and the CN is part of the DN and contains commas, and the escaped \, is
# pulled in as part of an LDAP sync
# If this option is set to true it will break the default home folder provider as space names can not contain \
ldap.authentication.escapeCommasInUid=false
