JBoss Portal is throwing IdentityException: Cannot recognize identity object type by its DN

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Issue

  • PicketLink is throwing the following LDAP exception when trying to match the IDM user in LDAP :

    org.picketlink.idm.common.exception.IdentityException:
     Cannot recognize identity object type by its DN: 
    cn=portaluser_administrator,cn=portaluser, ou=portalGroups, 
    dc=hds,dc=com
    
         at org.picketlink.idm.impl.store.ldap.LDAPIdentityStoreImpl.findIdentityObject(LDAPIdentityStoreImpl.java:836)
    
         at org.picketlink.idm.impl.store.ldap.LDAPIdentityStoreImpl.findIdentityObject(LDAPIdentityStoreImpl.java:1246)
    
         at 
    org.picketlink.idm.impl.repository.FallbackIdentityStoreRepository.findIdentityObject(FallbackIdentityStoreRepository.java:760)
    
         at org.picketlink.idm.impl.api.session.managers.RelationshipManagerImpl.findRelatedGroups(RelationshipManagerImpl.java:1264)
    
         at org.picketlink.idm.impl.api.session.managers.RelationshipManagerImpl.findRelatedGroups(RelationshipManagerImpl.java:1304)
    
         at org.exoplatform.services.organization.idm.GroupDAOImpl.findGroupsOfUser(GroupDAOImpl.java:594)
    
  • The user exists, but is unable to authenticate

Environment

  • JBoss Enterpise Portal Platfor (EPP) 5.1.0.GA
  • JBoss PicketLink

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