It was working until few days back but right now it doesnt login in.It shows authentication failed please try again.Im using Liferay 6.2 and this is my portal-ext.properties
#jdbc.default.jndi.name=jdbc/LiferayPool
jdbc.default.driverClassName=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver
jdbc.default.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost/lportal?useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=UTF-8&useFastDateParsing=false
jdbc.default.username=root
jdbc.default.password=root
echolaide.database.name=echolaidedb
echolaide.database.username=root
echolaide.database.password=root
echolaide.database.hostname=localhost
echolaide.database.connection=jdbc:mysql://localhost/echolaidedb?user=root&password=root
json.service.auth.token.hosts.allowed=127.0.0.1
json.service.auth.token.enabled=false
jsonws.web.service.public.methods=*
jsonws.servlet.hosts.allowed=127.0.0.1
#users.screen.name.validator=com.liferay.portal.security.auth.LiberalScreenNameValidator
#users.screen.name.allow.numeric=true
ldap.base.provider.url= ldap://localhost:389
ldap.base.dn= dc=echolaide,dc=schoolx
ldap.security.principal= cn=admin
ldap.security.credentials= x1234#
auth.pipeline.pre=com.liferay.portal.security.auth.LDAPAuth
ldap.auth.enabled=true
ldap.auth.required=true
ldap.password.policy.enabled=true
ldap.users.dn= dc=echolaide,dc=schoolx
ldap.groups.dn= dc=echolaide,dc=schoolx
ldap.import.enabled=true
ldap.import.interval=10
ldap.import.on.startup=true
ldap.import.method=group
ldap.import.group.search.filter.enabled=true
ldap.user.mappings=screenName=cn\npassword=userPassword\nemailAddress=mail\nfirstName=givenName\nlastName=sn
#ldap.user.impl=com.liferay.portal.security.ldap.LDAPUser
ldap.group.mappings=groupName=cn\ndescription=description\nuser=member
ldap.import.user.search.filter=(objectClass=inetOrgPerson)
ldap.import.group.search.filter=(objectClass=groupOfEntries)
ldap.auth.search.filter=(mail=@email_address@)
ldap.import.create.role.per.group=true
axis.servlet.hosts.allowed=
axis.servlet.https.required=false
company.security.auth.type=emailAddress
search.container.show.pagination.top=false
setup.wizard.enabled=false
#passwords.default.policy.change.required=false
I tested the ldap connection,user and groups from the control panel. They all are fine.I could see the user i tried to login.But im not able to login using the user.Can any one help me to identify the issue?
Log
16:07:01,799 ERROR [liferay/scheduler_dispatch-4][PortalLDAPImporterImpl:1061] Unable to load user {createtimestamp=createTimestamp: 20150209095349Z, mail=mail: raman@gmail.com, userpassword=userPassword: [B@b10e15, creatorsname=creatorsName: cn=Directory Manager,cn=Root DNs,cn=config, givenname=givenName: raman, sn=sn: raman, cn=cn: raman raman}
com.liferay.portal.UserScreenNameException
at com.liferay.portal.service.impl.UserLocalServiceImpl.validateScreenName(UserLocalServiceImpl.java:6158)
at com.liferay.portal.service.impl.UserLocalServiceImpl.validate(UserLocalServiceImpl.java:5897)
at com.liferay.portal.service.impl.UserLocalServiceImpl.addUserWithWorkflow(UserLocalServiceImpl.java:746)
at com.liferay.portal.service.impl.UserLocalServiceImpl.addUser(UserLocalServiceImpl.java:608)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor284.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:483)
at com.liferay.portal.spring.aop.ServiceBeanMethodInvocation.proceed(ServiceBeanMethodInvocation.java:115)
at com.liferay.portal.spring.transaction.DefaultTransactionExecutor.execute(DefaultTransactionExecutor.java:62)
at com.liferay.portal.spring.transaction.TransactionInterceptor.invoke(TransactionInterceptor.java:51)
at com.liferay.portal.spring.aop.ServiceBeanMethodInvocation.proceed(ServiceBeanMethodInvocation.java:111)
at com.liferay.portal.spring.aop.ServiceBeanAopProxy.invoke(ServiceBeanAopProxy.java:175)
at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy106.addUser(Unknown Source)
at com.liferay.portal.service.UserLocalServiceUtil.addUser(UserLocalServiceUtil.java:1166)
at com.liferay.portal.security.ldap.PortalLDAPImporterImpl.addUser(PortalLDAPImporterImpl.java:521)
at com.liferay.portal.security.ldap.PortalLDAPImporterImpl.importUser(PortalLDAPImporterImpl.java:930)
at com.liferay.portal.security.ldap.PortalLDAPImporterImpl.importUsers(PortalLDAPImporterImpl.java:1042)
at com.liferay.portal.security.ldap.PortalLDAPImporterImpl.importFromLDAPByGroup(PortalLDAPImporterImpl.java:664)
at com.liferay.portal.security.ldap.PortalLDAPImporterImpl.importFromLDAP(PortalLDAPImporterImpl.java:197)
at com.liferay.portal.security.ldap.PortalLDAPImporterImpl.importFromLDAP(PortalLDAPImporterImpl.java:139)
at com.liferay.portal.security.ldap.PortalLDAPImporterImpl.importFromLDAP(PortalLDAPImporterImpl.java:101)
at com.liferay.portal.security.ldap.PortalLDAPImporterUtil.importFromLDAP(PortalLDAPImporterUtil.java:39)
at com.liferay.portlet.admin.messaging.LDAPImportMessageListener.doReceive(LDAPImportMessageListener.java:51)
at com.liferay.portal.kernel.messaging.BaseMessageListener.receive(BaseMessageListener.java:26)
at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor274.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:483)
at com.liferay.portal.kernel.bean.ClassLoaderBeanHandler.invoke(ClassLoaderBeanHandler.java:67)
at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy297.receive(Unknown Source)
at com.liferay.portal.kernel.scheduler.messaging.SchedulerEventMessageListenerWrapper.receive(SchedulerEventMessageListenerWrapper.java:76)
at com.liferay.portal.kernel.messaging.InvokerMessageListener.receive(InvokerMessageListener.java:72)
at com.liferay.portal.kernel.messaging.ParallelDestination$1.run(ParallelDestination.java:69)
at com.liferay.portal.kernel.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$WorkerTask._runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:682)
at com.liferay.portal.kernel.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$WorkerTask.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:593)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
The exception says the userScreenName has issue. The LDAP attribute which is mapped to Liferay screenName has value which is rejected by Liferay. If it has some special characters, you can set "allowed special characters" using a property in portal-ext.properties file.