Failure using encrypted bind password with JBoss' LdapExtLoginModule

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

When trying to use the encrypted Bind credentials for the LdapExtLoginModule, as described at

http://community.jboss.org/wiki/LdapExtLoginModuleWithJaasSecurityDomain, the following error appears:

[org.jboss.security.plugins.auth.JaasSecurityManagerBase.jmx-console] Login failure
javax.security.auth.login.FailedLoginException: Password Incorrect/Password Required
    at org.jboss.security.auth.spi.UsernamePasswordLoginModule.login(UsernamePasswordLoginModule.java:252)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
    at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
    at javax.security.auth.login.LoginContext.invoke(LoginContext.java:769)
    at javax.security.auth.login.LoginContext.access$000(LoginContext.java:186)
    at javax.security.auth.login.LoginContext$4.run(LoginContext.java:683)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at javax.security.auth.login.LoginContext.invokePriv(LoginContext.java:680)
    at javax.security.auth.login.LoginContext.login(LoginContext.java:579)
    at org.jboss.security.plugins.auth.JaasSecurityManagerBase.defaultLogin(JaasSecurityManagerBase.java:553)
    at org.jboss.security.plugins.auth.JaasSecurityManagerBase.authenticate(JaasSecurityManagerBase.java:487)
    at org.jboss.security.plugins.auth.JaasSecurityManagerBase.isValid(JaasSecurityManagerBase.java:365)
    at org.jboss.security.plugins.JaasSecurityManager.isValid(JaasSecurityManager.java:160)
Caused by: javax.management.ReflectionException
     at org.jboss.mx.server.AbstractMBeanInvoker.invoke(AbstractMBeanInvoker.java:231)
     at org.jboss.mx.server.MBeanServerImpl.invoke(MBeanServerImpl.java:668)
     at org.jboss.security.auth.spi.DecodeAction.decode(DecodeAction.java:91)
     at org.jboss.security.auth.spi.DecodeAction.decode64(DecodeAction.java:73)
     at org.jboss.security.auth.spi.DecodeAction.run(DecodeAction.java:63)
     at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
     at org.jboss.security.auth.spi.DecodeAction.decode(DecodeAction.java:101)
     at org.jboss.security.auth.spi.LdapExtLoginModule.createLdapInitContext(LdapExtLoginModule.java:338)
     at org.jboss.security.auth.spi.LdapExtLoginModule.validatePassword(LdapExtLoginModule.java:285)
     at org.jboss.security.auth.spi.UsernamePasswordLoginModule.login(UsernamePasswordLoginModule.java:249)
     ... 44 more
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Unable to find operation decode64([B)
     ... 54 more

Environment

  • JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 5.0.0

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