JSPWiki 2.8 Authentication troubles

[ma...@telenet.be]

Hi,

we are currently running JSPWiki 2.4, with our own custom LDAP login- and Userdatabase module, and we want to upgrade to 2.8.
However we have troubles with the new implemented Authorisation & Authentication:
- navigating to the Login or Userpreferences page does not work, the page gets not loaded, no error or warning is given, nothing to find in the logs (even in debug mode) except for the following lines:
"INFO com.ecyrd.jspwiki.auth.UserManager  - Attempting to load user database class ... .LDAPUserDatabase
INFO com.ecyrd.jspwiki.auth.user.AbstractUserDatabase  - Initializing LDAP database ...
INFO com.ecyrd.jspwiki.auth.UserManager  - UserDatabase initialized."
So it seems that our Userdatbase is initialized correctly.

- I tried to go to the Admin and SecurityConfig pages and these gave me following errors:
* Admin page: 
"An error occurred while getting property "wikiNames" from an instance of class ... .LDAPUserDatabase.
Exception
    javax.servlet.jsp.el.ELException
Place where detected
    org.apache.commons.el.Logger.logError(), line 484"

* SecurityConfig:
"Error Message
    An unknown exception java.lang.NullPointerException was caught by Error.jsp.
Exception
    java.lang.NullPointerException
Place where detected
    com.ecyrd.jspwiki.auth.WikiPrincipal.hashCode(), line 145 "

Our implementation only returns a profile for "findByLoginName", that was never a problem, and "getWikiNames" probably always returns an empty array, maybe that is the problem ?

regards,
Marc Patteet

Re: JSPWiki 2.8 Authentication troubles

[Andrew Jaquith <an...@me.com>]

Marc - we changed the contract for UserDatabase slighttly. I thought  
we documented the required changes in the UPGRADING document. However,  
you can get the details from the UserDatabase javadoc.

That said, here's what the problem is likely to be:
- your user database implementation does not implement finding by  
unique ID
- your UserDatabase implementation does not implement UserProfile  
custom properties (a new 2.8 feature)

The empty array might also be the root cause... Let me know what you  
find.

Andrew

On Oct 27, 2008, at 8:57, marpa@telenet.be wrote:

> Hi,
>
> we are currently running JSPWiki 2.4, with our own custom LDAP  
> login- and Userdatabase module, and we want to upgrade to 2.8.
> However we have troubles with the new implemented Authorisation &  
> Authentication:
> - navigating to the Login or Userpreferences page does not work, the  
> page gets not loaded, no error or warning is given, nothing to find  
> in the logs (even in debug mode) except for the following lines:
> "INFO com.ecyrd.jspwiki.auth.UserManager  - Attempting to load user  
> database class ... .LDAPUserDatabase
> INFO com.ecyrd.jspwiki.auth.user.AbstractUserDatabase  -  
> Initializing LDAP database ...
> INFO com.ecyrd.jspwiki.auth.UserManager  - UserDatabase initialized."
> So it seems that our Userdatbase is initialized correctly.
>
> - I tried to go to the Admin and SecurityConfig pages and these gave  
> me following errors:
> * Admin page:
> "An error occurred while getting property "wikiNames" from an  
> instance of class ... .LDAPUserDatabase.
> Exception
>    javax.servlet.jsp.el.ELException
> Place where detected
>    org.apache.commons.el.Logger.logError(), line 484"
>
> * SecurityConfig:
> "Error Message
>    An unknown exception java.lang.NullPointerException was caught by  
> Error.jsp.
> Exception
>    java.lang.NullPointerException
> Place where detected
>    com.ecyrd.jspwiki.auth.WikiPrincipal.hashCode(), line 145 "
>
> Our implementation only returns a profile for "findByLoginName",  
> that was never a problem, and "getWikiNames" probably always returns  
> an empty array, maybe that is the problem ?
>
> regards,
> Marc Patteet
>
>