Authentication failure during deployment

Question

I'm using an ant target to do remote deployment of our app to an OC4J container.The ant target looks as follows :
<target name="iasDeploy" description="Deploys">
     <java jar="D:/MAVEN-WORK/eportal-lib/oc4j_remote_deploy.jar" fork="yes" maxmemory ="512m">
<jvmarg value="-Djava.protocol.handler.pkgs=HTTPClient"/>
<arg value="http://wblv-ep-sp05.mycompany.com:1822/Oc4jDcmServletAPI"/>
<arg value="ias_admin"/>
<arg value="admin_dev3"/>
<arg value="deploy"/>
<arg value="/app/oracle/product/oc4jext10.1.2-d3"/>
<arg value="D:/MAVEN-WORK/acme-ear/target/acme.ear"/>
<arg value="acme"/>
<arg value="oc4jext1012d3.wblv-ep-sp06.mycompany.co.za"/>
</java>
     </target>
When I run this task I'm getting the following authentication error message :
iasDeploy:
[java] Initializing log
[java] Servlet interface for OC4J DCM commands
[java] Command timeout defined at 600 seconds
[java] Executing DCM command...
[java] Executing command deploy /app/oracle/product/oc4jext10.1.2-d3 D:/MAVEN-WORK/acme-ear/target/acme.ear eportal oc4jext1012d3.wblv-ep-sp06.telkom.co.za
[java] Command = DEPLOY
[java] Reading application's ear file
[java] Ear file was successfully read
[java] Opening connection to Oc4jDcmServlet
[java] Setting userName to ias_admin
[java] Sending command to DCM servlet
[java] HTTP response code = 401, HTTP response msg = Unauthorized
[java] #### HTTP response is NOT ok
[java] Closing connection to Oc4jDcmServlet
[java] #### DCM command did not complete successfully (401)
[java] #### Authorization failure. Please, check your username/password.
[java] Java Result: 401
Total time: 4 seconds
However when I use my browser to go to http://wblv-ep-sp05.mycompany.com:1822 , I connect successfuly using the same username/password specified in the ant target.

Answer 1

Hi Maclemon,
That's a helpful answer but I ran out of yellow stars
SSH is allowed in Server Admin > Settings > General, and 'all users and groups' have the same access for all services under Server Admin > Settings > Access.
id root shows
uid=0(root) gid=0(wheel) groups=0(wheel), 1(daemon), 2(kmem), 3(sys), 20(staff), 4(tty), 80(admin), 29(certusers), 5(operator)
Security advice: direct root ssh login should be disabled under any circumstances unless explicitly necessary. (eg creating a OD Replica)
In fact I am trying to create an OD replica. My interpretation of the documentation is that if SSH is checked under erver Admin > Settings > General then the Replica should have sufficient access. Am I missing a step here?
In fact when I try to create a replica I get the follwoing message in Server Admin on the replica "Error while writing settings (Could not connect to teh Open Directory Master using SSH)". At this point the OD master shows the message mentioned in my OP.
Many thanks for your interest,
b.