Sample Custom SSO not working for external userid mapped in userprofile in 11.1.1.8

Question

Hi,
WebCenter sites v: 11gR1 (11.1.1.8)
I am in the process of validating Custom SSO Behaviour. I am facing hurdles. I have mentioned below the steps I preformed.
1. Deployed customizable-sso-11.1.1.8.0 .jar in cas/WEB-INF/lib
2. Copied SampleLoginform.jsp file to cas/fatwire
3. Copied the customSampleSSObeans.xml configuration file into cas/WEB-INF/spring-configuration folder.
4. Modified the following bean
        <bean id="customUserConfiguration" class="com.fatwire.wem.sso.cas.sample.SampleConfiguration"
                p:casLoginUrl="http://xyz.com:7001/cas/login"
                p:resolverUrl="http://xyz.com:7001/cs/custom/customCsResolver.jsp"
                p:resolverCredential-ref="resolverCredential"
                p:traceFlag="false"
                p:sampleDomain="mydomain"
                p:sampleFormUrl="http://xyz.com:7001/cas/fatwire/SampleLoginForm.jsp"
                />
  Note: p:resolverCredential - I found it new in this bean, as it is not referenced anywhere in the WCS documentation. This resolverCredentail is actually another bean configured in customResolverCredentail.xml under spring-configuration folder. Also, I am not sure if p:sampleDomain has to be modified to suit the environment. Currently I have retained the default value of "mydomain".
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
        xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:p="http://www.springframework.org/schema/p"
        xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans-2.0.xsd">
        <description>
                This defines the SitesCS username/password credentials needed for identity resolution
        </description>
        <bean id="resolverCredential" class="com.fatwire.security.common.SecurityCredential">
                <property name="username" value="fwadmin" />
                <property name="password" value="xceladmin" />
                </bean>
</beans>
The default value mentioned for property name username and password were "@username@" and "@password@" respectively. I changed them to fwadmin/xceladmin as in the file above.
5. In WCS Admin UI, I added a user atribute "samplesso" and assigned unique value for couple of users
6. Restarted CAS.
7. On accessin wcs url, I am now redirected to custom sample login page(SampleLoginform.jsp)
    Following are the form fields: username, password, domain, external userid
8. It works fine, if I submit wcs credentails for username,password and default domain (mydomain) and I am taken to the WCS Admin UI
9. But if I submit domain(mydomain) and mapped user(unique value in sep 5) against userid, I get an error page. Following is the error
org.springframework.webflow.engine.ActionExecutionException: Exception thrown executing [AnnotatedAction@5f82e73 targetAction = com.fatwire.wem.sso.cas.web.CustomLoginViewAction@68b18314, attributes = map[[empty]]] in state 'viewLoginForm' of flow 'login-webflow' -- action execution attributes were 'map[[empty]]'; nested exception is java.lang.SecurityException: java.lang.NullPointerException
What is the cause and fix for the problem. Am I supposed to perform any other step?
Is there anything specific to p:resolverUrl="http://xyz.com:7001/cs/custom/customCsResolver.jsp" ? I did not do any deployment corresponding to this, as there was no such step mentioned in documentation.
Thanks

Answer 1

I just recently implemnted this for my current client.
http://xyz.com:7001/cs/custom/customCsResolver.jsp
The context "cs" here is important. For my current client, we installed 11G with context "cm". So for us the the resolver URL is:
http://xyz.com:7001/cm/custom/customCsResolver.jsp  and when we login into FatWire we use:
http://xyz.com:7001/cm/login.
If you look in your Sites application folder you should see <Sites App/Context>/custom/customcsResolver.jsp. In the Jsk it's located at:
C:\Oracle\WebCenter\Sites\11gR1\App_Server\apache-tomcat-6.0.32\webapps\cs\custom\customCsResolver.jsp
Regards,
Robert Jackson