EAP6 does not follow LDAP referral

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Issue

  • When LDAP returns a referral to EAP6, EAP6 does not follow the referral and throws an exception:-
11:20:23,979 ERROR [stderr] (http-/127.0.0.1:8080-1) javax.naming.NotContextException: Cannot create context for: ldap://host02:1389/ou=referred,dc=redhat,dc=com; remaining name 'ou=referral,dc=redhat,dc=com'
11:20:23,985 ERROR [stderr] (http-/127.0.0.1:8080-1)    at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapReferralContext.<init>(LdapReferralContext.java:123)
11:20:23,985 ERROR [stderr] (http-/127.0.0.1:8080-1)    at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapReferralException.getReferralContext(LdapReferralException.java:132)
11:20:23,985 ERROR [stderr] (http-/127.0.0.1:8080-1)    at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtx.searchAux(LdapCtx.java:1841)
11:20:23,985 ERROR [stderr] (http-/127.0.0.1:8080-1)    at com.sun.jndi.ldap.LdapCtx.c_search(LdapCtx.java:1752)
11:20:23,985 ERROR [stderr] (http-/127.0.0.1:8080-1)    at com.sun.jndi.toolkit.ctx.ComponentDirContext.p_search(ComponentDirContext.java:368)
11:20:23,985 ERROR [stderr] (http-/127.0.0.1:8080-1)    at com.sun.jndi.toolkit.ctx.PartialCompositeDirContext.search(PartialCompositeDirContext.java:338)
11:20:23,986 ERROR [stderr] (http-/127.0.0.1:8080-1)    at com.sun.jndi.toolkit.ctx.PartialCompositeDirContext.search(PartialCompositeDirContext.java:321)
11:20:23,986 ERROR [stderr] (http-/127.0.0.1:8080-1)    at javax.naming.directory.InitialDirContext.search(InitialDirContext.java:248)
  • The LDAP authentication against Active Directory is getting "invalid user name and password" from the application .

  • Unable to login in the AdminConsole after setting up LDAP Active Directory in EAP 6 as follows:-

<security-realm name="LDAPRealm">
                <authentication>
                    <ldap connection="ldap_connection" base-dn="dc=my,dc=domain">
                        <username-filter attribute="cn"/>
                    </ldap>
                </authentication>
</security-realm>   
  • Getting issue javax.naming.PartialResultException when configuring LDAP for authentication as well as RBAC or Authorization in EAP 6.2.

Environment

  • Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP)
    • 6.0.x
    • 6.1.x
    • 6.2.x

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