Hi Juerg,
do you have the full stacktrace?
regards
antonio
On Jul 4, 2013, at 11:49 PM, JCR wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm about to switch to form based authentication for some of my sites.
>
> I deployed the org.apache.sling.auth.form bundle in version 1.0.2 as I
> believe that later versions are not compatible with CRX 2.2.
>
> After some config, the login form pops up and sends the two required
> fields j_username and j_password. Unfortunately, the request gets never
> approved. Instead, the error.log says the following:
>
> ... org.apache.sling.auth.core.impl.SlingAuthenticator
> handleLoginFailure: Unable to authenticate jurg: null
>
> Most likely, this is generated by SlingAuthenticator.handleLoginFailure():
>
> } else if (reason instanceof LoginException) {
>
> // request authentication information and send 403 (Forbidden)
> // if no handler can request authentication information.
> log.info("handleLoginFailure: Unable to authenticate {}: {}",
> user,
> reason.getMessage());
>
>
> This now raises the following questions:
>
> - using basic authentication, login with the same credentials works fine. So
> what's keeping form based authenticator from verifying the credentials
> properly?
> - what causes the reason to be empty?
>
> Thanks for any hint,
> Juerg
>
