Manfred Baedke created OAK-8890:
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             Summary: LDAP login may fail if a server or intermediate silently 
drops connections
                 Key: OAK-8890
                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OAK-8890
             Project: Jackrabbit Oak
          Issue Type: Bug
          Components: auth-ldap
            Reporter: Manfred Baedke
            Assignee: Manfred Baedke


This has been seen on production systems with Oak 1.10.2, where a firewall was 
configured to drop idle connections after a timeout without sending an RST (for 
security reasons). When this happens, the connection pool used by the 
LdapPrincipalProvider will still consider these connections healthy. Eventually 
such a connection will be used for an actual LDAP BIND/SEARCH, which will 
simply timeout.
The connection pool is an instance of 
org.apache.commons.pool.impl.GenericObjectPool, which has configuration options 
to deal with the scenario (namely running an eviction task which will properly 
close idle connections after a timeout which is shorter than the timeout 
interval used by the firewall) .
The creation of the connection pool used is hard coded and most of the 
configuration options are not available. 
I propose to change that. I'll supply a patch soon.



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