[SOLVED] external authentication not working

[veronica]

Hi,

I am trying to authenticate externally. The details of my external auth setting are attached below. I can test one user authentication as is asked to me to test in admin console "configure authentication" window. Also i am able to do a ldap search from zimbra to my legacy system.The only issue is when i create a user in zimbra which already exist in my legacy LDAP, i dont get authenticated and gives me following error: -

com.zimbra.common.service.ServiceException: system failure: Missing 'equals'
ExceptionId:btpool0-8:1213890071022:31cb0c9ad92eec8d
Code:service.FAILURE
at com.zimbra.common.service.ServiceException.FAILURE (ServiceException.java:253)
at com.zimbra.cs.account.ldap.LdapProvisioning.extern alLdapAuth(LdapProvisioning.java:2806)
at com.zimbra.cs.account.auth.AuthMechanism$LdapAuth. doAuth(AuthMechanism.java:163)
at com.zimbra.cs.account.ldap.LdapProvisioning.verify PasswordInternal(LdapProvisioning.java:2856)
at com.zimbra.cs.account.ldap.LdapProvisioning.verify Password(LdapProvisioning.java:2825)
at com.zimbra.cs.account.ldap.LdapProvisioning.authAc count(LdapProvisioning.java:2698)
at com.zimbra.cs.account.ldap.LdapProvisioning.authAc count(LdapProvisioning.java:2677)
at com.zimbra.cs.service.account.Auth.handle(Auth.jav a:120)
at com.zimbra.soap.SoapEngine.dispatchRequest(SoapEng ine.java:410)
at com.zimbra.soap.SoapEngine.dispatch(SoapEngine.jav a:267)
at com.zimbra.soap.SoapEngine.dispatch(SoapEngine.jav a:159)
at com.zimbra.soap.SoapServlet.doPost(SoapServlet.jav a:266)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet .java:727)
at com.zimbra.cs.servlet.ZimbraServlet.service(Zimbra Servlet.java:189)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet .java:820)
at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.handle(Ser vletHolder.java:487)
at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedCha in.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1093)
at org.mortbay.servlet.UserAgentFilter.doFilter(UserA gentFilter.java:81)
at org.mortbay.servlet.GzipFilter.doFilter(GzipFilter .java:148)
at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedCha in.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1084)
at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.handle(Se rvletHandler.java:360)
at org.mortbay.jetty.security.SecurityHandler.handle( SecurityHandler.java:216)
at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.SessionHandler.handle(Se ssionHandler.java:181)
at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandler.handle(Co ntextHandler.java:716)
at org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.handle(WebA ppContext.java:406)
at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandlerCollection .handle(ContextHandlerCollection.java:211)
at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerCollection.handle (HandlerCollection.java:114)
at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(Ha ndlerWrapper.java:139)
at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.rewrite.RewriteHandler.h andle(RewriteHandler.java:350)
at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(Ha ndlerWrapper.java:139)
at org.mortbay.jetty.Server.handle(Server.java:313)
at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection.handleRequest(Htt pConnection.java:506)
at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection$RequestHandler.co ntent(HttpConnection.java:844)
at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpParser.parseNext(HttpParser. java:644)
at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpParser.parseAvailable(HttpPa rser.java:211)
at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection.handle(HttpConnec tion.java:381)
at org.mortbay.io.nio.SelectChannelEndPoint.run(Selec tChannelEndPoint.java:396)
at org.mortbay.thread.BoundedThreadPool$PoolThread.ru n(BoundedThreadPool.java:442)
Caused by: javax.naming.directory.InvalidSearchFilterExceptio n: Missing 'equals'; remaining name 'cn=users,dc=kuniv,dc=edu,dc=kw'
at com.sun.jndi.ldap.Filter.encodeSimpleFilter(Filter .java:305)
at com.sun.jndi.ldap.Filter.encodeFilter(Filter.java: 151)
at com.sun.jndi.ldap.Filter.encodeFilterString(Filter .java:55)
at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapClient.search(LdapClient.jav a:520)
at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtx.doSearch(LdapCtx.java:19 44)
at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtx.searchAux(LdapCtx.java:1 806)
at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtx.c_search(LdapCtx.java:17 31)
at com.sun.jndi.toolkit.ctx.ComponentDirContext.p_sea rch(ComponentDirContext.java:368)
at com.sun.jndi.toolkit.ctx.PartialCompositeDirContex t.search(PartialCompositeDirContext.java:338)
at javax.naming.directory.InitialDirContext.search(In itialDirContext.java:257)
at com.zimbra.cs.account.ldap.ZimbraLdapContext.searc hDir(ZimbraLdapContext.java:504)
at com.zimbra.cs.account.ldap.LdapUtil.ldapAuthentica te(LdapUtil.java:132)
at com.zimbra.cs.account.ldap.LdapProvisioning.extern alLdapAuth(LdapProvisioning.java:2789)
... 36 more

Can anyone help me in knowing what can be the issue ?

[p24t]

Welcome to the forums.

For your LDAP filter, I see you only have '%u'. I don't know your naming schema, but normally for the filter you use something like 'uid=%u' or 'cn=%u', depending on how you have them named. You may try changing that. (just guessing from the "missing equals" bit)

[veronica]

Hi,

Thanks this works fine.. i was missing 'uid=%u' ..