Facing "Authentication failed" while unable to connect JBoss EAP using JBoss CLI
Issue
- Unable to connect to remote JBoss EAP 6 via
jboss-cli.sh
with the following Exception:
$ ./bin/jboss-cli.sh -c --controller=hostname:9999 --user=adminuser --password=adminpassword
org.jboss.as.cli.CliInitializationException: Failed to connect to the controller
at org.jboss.as.cli.impl.CliLauncher.initCommandContext(CliLauncher.java:284)
at org.jboss.as.cli.impl.CliLauncher.main(CliLauncher.java:262)
at org.jboss.as.cli.CommandLineMain.main(CommandLineMain.java:34)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606)
at org.jboss.modules.Module.run(Module.java:292)
at org.jboss.modules.Main.main(Main.java:455)
Caused by: org.jboss.as.cli.CommandLineException: Unable to authenticate against controller at hostname:9999
at org.jboss.as.cli.impl.CommandContextImpl.tryConnection(CommandContextImpl.java:956)
at org.jboss.as.cli.impl.CommandContextImpl.connectController(CommandContextImpl.java:808)
at org.jboss.as.cli.impl.CommandContextImpl.connectController(CommandContextImpl.java:784)
at org.jboss.as.cli.impl.CliLauncher.initCommandContext(CliLauncher.java:282)
... 8 more
Caused by: javax.security.sasl.SaslException: Authentication failed: all available authentication mechanisms failed
at org.jboss.remoting3.remote.ClientConnectionOpenListener$Capabilities.handleEvent(ClientConnectionOpenListener.java:367)
at org.jboss.remoting3.remote.ClientConnectionOpenListener$Capabilities.handleEvent(ClientConnectionOpenListener.java:229)
at org.xnio.ChannelListeners.invokeChannelListener(ChannelListeners.java:72)
at org.xnio.channels.TranslatingSuspendableChannel.handleReadable(TranslatingSuspendableChannel.java:189)
at org.xnio.channels.TranslatingSuspendableChannel$1.handleEvent(TranslatingSuspendableChannel.java:103)
at org.xnio.ChannelListeners.invokeChannelListener(ChannelListeners.java:72)
at org.xnio.channels.TranslatingSuspendableChannel.handleReadable(TranslatingSuspendableChannel.java:189)
at org.xnio.ssl.JsseConnectedSslStreamChannel.handleReadable(JsseConnectedSslStreamChannel.java:180)
at org.xnio.channels.TranslatingSuspendableChannel$1.handleEvent(TranslatingSuspendableChannel.java:103)
at org.xnio.ChannelListeners.invokeChannelListener(ChannelListeners.java:72)
at org.xnio.nio.NioHandle.run(NioHandle.java:90)
at org.xnio.nio.WorkerThread.run(WorkerThread.java:187)
at ...asynchronous invocation...(Unknown Source)
at org.jboss.remoting3.EndpointImpl.doConnect(EndpointImpl.java:270)
at org.jboss.remoting3.EndpointImpl.doConnect(EndpointImpl.java:251)
at org.jboss.remoting3.EndpointImpl.connect(EndpointImpl.java:349)
at org.jboss.remoting3.EndpointImpl.connect(EndpointImpl.java:337)
at org.jboss.as.protocol.ProtocolConnectionUtils.connect(ProtocolConnectionUtils.java:80)
at org.jboss.as.protocol.ProtocolConnectionUtils.connectSync(ProtocolConnectionUtils.java:99)
at org.jboss.as.protocol.ProtocolConnectionManager$EstablishingConnection.connect(ProtocolConnectionManager.java:256)
at org.jboss.as.protocol.ProtocolConnectionManager.connect(ProtocolConnectionManager.java:70)
at org.jboss.as.protocol.mgmt.FutureManagementChannel$Establishing.getChannel(FutureManagementChannel.java:204)
at org.jboss.as.cli.impl.CLIModelControllerClient.getOrCreateChannel(CLIModelControllerClient.java:160)
at org.jboss.as.cli.impl.CLIModelControllerClient$2.getChannel(CLIModelControllerClient.java:120)
at org.jboss.as.protocol.mgmt.ManagementChannelHandler.executeRequest(ManagementChannelHandler.java:117)
at org.jboss.as.protocol.mgmt.ManagementChannelHandler.executeRequest(ManagementChannelHandler.java:92)
at org.jboss.as.controller.client.impl.AbstractModelControllerClient.executeRequest(AbstractModelControllerClient.java:236)
at org.jboss.as.controller.client.impl.AbstractModelControllerClient.execute(AbstractModelControllerClient.java:141)
at org.jboss.as.controller.client.impl.AbstractModelControllerClient.executeForResult(AbstractModelControllerClient.java:127)
at org.jboss.as.controller.client.impl.AbstractModelControllerClient.execute(AbstractModelControllerClient.java:71)
at org.jboss.as.cli.impl.CommandContextImpl.tryConnection(CommandContextImpl.java:947)
... 11 more
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I could specify any user/password to
jboss-cli.sh
when connection from local machine in EAP 6.0.x/6.1.x. But I got the above Exception when doing same thing in EAP 6.2.x onwards. What causes this difference? -
Facing the following when connecting via JBoss CLI in EAP 7:
Authentication failed: all available authentication mechanisms failed:
PLAIN: javax.security.sasl.SaslException: PLAIN: Server rejected authentication
Environment
- Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP)
- 6
- 7
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