Novell LDAP Group - Role

Hi,
I have created a Novell LDAP Group. In my realm I have now two authentication
providers: default and novell, both optional. If I authenticate my user which
is stored in the novell ldap the user is correctly authenticated (request.getRemoteUser()
!= null), although the log says user denied (no matter if the user is in the embedded
ldap or the novell, but maybe the other one always complains). (novell user gets
rejected if password is wrong)
For a novell group i create a role with the condition: caller is a member of the
group"novell group" this seems not to work. with request.isUserInRole("novell
group") i get "false" !!
any ideas??
regards
tobias

found my mistake. i created a role in the weblogic console which i also have defined
in the web.xml. then i also need to assign this role to the principal (my group)
in the weblogic.xml.
if i have a role not defined in the web.xml the request.isUserInRole(<RoleName>)
works fine, but not in the above described case without assignment in the weblogic.xml.
"Tobias Voigt" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
Actually groups are also configured correctly as it seems for me. On
the group
page, the ldap group is also listed (in the provider column it says NovellAuthenticator).
Also if i look at the output of weblogic.security.Security.getCurrentSubject()
the LDAP group is also listed as a Principal.
weblogic.security.SubjectUtils.isUserInGroup(<Subject>,<LDAPGroup>) says
true.
but request.isUserInRole(<Role for Members in LDAPGroup>) says false.
(Btw: Weblogic 8.1 sp1)
"tm" <no-reply> wrote:
Hi Tobias,
It sounds like you can successfully use users
in your Novell LDAP server but you cannot
successfully use groups from the LDAP server.
(ie. when you login, it's finding the user, but it
isn't finding the user's groups thus the role isn't working).
I'm assuming that you have configured a NovellAuthenticator.
You must configure the NovellAuthenticator to tell
how groups are stored in your Novell LDAP server
(ie. tell it about the group schema). If this is not
correctly configured, then groups won't work.
See http://e-docs.bea.com/wls/docs81/secmanage/providers.html#1172008
for more information on configuring group schemas for LDAP authentication
providers.
-tm
"Tobias Voigt" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
Hi,
I have created a Novell LDAP Group. In my realm I have now twoauthentication
providers: default and novell, both optional. If I authenticate myuser
which
is stored in the novell ldap the user is correctly authenticated(request.getRemoteUser()
!= null), although the log says user denied (no matter if the useris in
the embedded
ldap or the novell, but maybe the other one always complains). (novelluser gets
rejected if password is wrong)
For a novell group i create a role with the condition: caller is amember
of the
group"novell group" this seems not to work. withrequest.isUserInRole("novell
group") i get "false" !!
any ideas??
regards
tobias

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