interesting user logon problem

[Ben.Thompson]

I have an interesting issue,  with one user who has to logon twice to be
authenticated to JSPWiki.  All the other 25 users, including myself do
not have this problem.  We are running JSPWiki 2.8.2 with RACF for our
authentication, but it turns out that the user had the same problem
under JSPWiki 2.8.1 using JSPWiki's authentication.  The users has to
logon twice to be authenticated to JSPWiki under both Explorer and
Firefox.  We have removed all cookies from both Explorer and Firefox,
this has not made a difference.

 

The step to logon are:

* When at the JSPWiki home page, G'day (anonymous guest) appears
next to login.

 

* click Login and Login page displays.

 

* fill in RACF username & Password.

 

* JSPWiki home page is displayed with  G'day (anonymous guest)
appearing against the login again, user still does not have access.

 

* Repeat the process by clicking on the login and login page
displays.

 

* Fill in RACF username & Password , JSPWiki home page is
displayed with  G'day, XXX(authenticated). And at this stage the user
can access the info in JSPWiki.

 

Any ideas on what's going on here

 

Thanks

 

Benjamin Thompson
Systems Programmer
Data Centre Services
Northern Territory Government

twitter:benthompsonau
ph [phone]

 

[Maduranga Kannangara-2]

This happens to me when first time user logged in from DOMAIN.COM and next time WWW.DOMAIN.COM.
If the user logged in from WWW.DOMAIN.COM from the first time itself, user is not re-prompted to login.

Did not have time to investigate in detail yet. But I suspect its coming from Cookie/JAAS combination??

/Madu


-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Thompson [mailto:Ben.Thompson@...]
Sent: Monday, 12 October 2009 12:39 PM
To: jspwiki-user@...
Subject: interesting user logon problem

I have an interesting issue,  with one user who has to logon twice to be
authenticated to JSPWiki.  All the other 25 users, including myself do
not have this problem.  We are running JSPWiki 2.8.2 with RACF for our
authentication, but it turns out that the user had the same problem
under JSPWiki 2.8.1 using JSPWiki's authentication.  The users has to
logon twice to be authenticated to JSPWiki under both Explorer and
Firefox.  We have removed all cookies from both Explorer and Firefox,
this has not made a difference.

 

The step to logon are:

* When at the JSPWiki home page, G'day (anonymous guest) appears
next to login.

 

* click Login and Login page displays.

 

* fill in RACF username & Password.

 

* JSPWiki home page is displayed with  G'day (anonymous guest)
appearing against the login again, user still does not have access.

 

* Repeat the process by clicking on the login and login page
displays.

 

* Fill in RACF username & Password , JSPWiki home page is
displayed with  G'day, XXX(authenticated). And at this stage the user
can access the info in JSPWiki.

 

Any ideas on what's going on here

 

Thanks

 

Benjamin Thompson
Systems Programmer
Data Centre Services
Northern Territory Government

twitter:benthompsonau
ph [phone]

 

[Andrew Jaquith-4]

Given that JSPWiki doesn't ship out-of-the box with RACF support,
would you mind describing your configuration in more detail? In
particular, how is your authentication configured?

Andrew

On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 9:38 PM, Ben Thompson <Ben.Thompson@...> wrote:

> I have an interesting issue,  with one user who has to logon twice to be
> authenticated to JSPWiki.  All the other 25 users, including myself do
> not have this problem.  We are running JSPWiki 2.8.2 with RACF for our
> authentication, but it turns out that the user had the same problem
> under JSPWiki 2.8.1 using JSPWiki's authentication.  The users has to
> logon twice to be authenticated to JSPWiki under both Explorer and
> Firefox.  We have removed all cookies from both Explorer and Firefox,
> this has not made a difference.
>
>
>
> The step to logon are:
>
> *       When at the JSPWiki home page, G'day (anonymous guest) appears
> next to login.
>
>
>
> *       click Login and Login page displays.
>
>
>
> *       fill in RACF username & Password.
>
>
>
> *       JSPWiki home page is displayed with  G'day (anonymous guest)
> appearing against the login again, user still does not have access.
>
>
>
> *       Repeat the process by clicking on the login and login page
> displays.
>
>
>
> *       Fill in RACF username & Password , JSPWiki home page is
> displayed with  G'day, XXX(authenticated). And at this stage the user
> can access the info in JSPWiki.
>
>
>
> Any ideas on what's going on here
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
> Benjamin Thompson
> Systems Programmer
> Data Centre Services
> Northern Territory Government
>
> twitter:benthompsonau
> ph [phone]
>
>
>
>

[Harry Metske]

This indeed looks very much like you are accessing your JSPWiki with a
"wrong URL", a URL that is different from the baseURL configured in
jspwiki.properties.(like Madu also suggested)

Once  you login, you are redirected to the baseURL and have to log in again.
It has nothing todo with RACF.

regards,
Harry


2009/10/12 Ben Thompson <Ben.Thompson@...>

> I have an interesting issue,  with one user who has to logon twice to be
> authenticated to JSPWiki.  All the other 25 users, including myself do
> not have this problem.  We are running JSPWiki 2.8.2 with RACF for our
> authentication, but it turns out that the user had the same problem
> under JSPWiki 2.8.1 using JSPWiki's authentication.  The users has to
> logon twice to be authenticated to JSPWiki under both Explorer and
> Firefox.  We have removed all cookies from both Explorer and Firefox,
> this has not made a difference.
>
>
>
> The step to logon are:
>
> *       When at the JSPWiki home page, G'day (anonymous guest) appears
> next to login.
>
>
>
> *       click Login and Login page displays.
>
>
>
> *       fill in RACF username & Password.
>
>
>
> *       JSPWiki home page is displayed with  G'day (anonymous guest)
> appearing against the login again, user still does not have access.
>
>
>
> *       Repeat the process by clicking on the login and login page
> displays.
>
>
>
> *       Fill in RACF username & Password , JSPWiki home page is
> displayed with  G'day, XXX(authenticated). And at this stage the user
> can access the info in JSPWiki.
>
>
>
> Any ideas on what's going on here
>
>
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
> Benjamin Thompson
> Systems Programmer
> Data Centre Services
> Northern Territory Government
>
> twitter:benthompsonau
> ph [phone]
>
>
>
>