Login using client certificate

[Former Member]

Hello all,

I configured my portal solution to login using client certificates and SSL. On the login screen I am asked to prompt my user ID / password so a mapping between certificate and user ID can be established.

After having done, logging on to the portal for the second time doesn't work using the certificate - I am prompted to enter my uid/pwd again.

Does somebody have a hint on what I could have done wrong?

[Former Member]

Hi to everyone in here

I just wanted to ask whether you have any answer for this, because I seem to have exactly the same problem with my SR1 Installation. While authorization with client certificates has worked just fine with SP2, this does not seem to be possible with SR1. After having chosen the appropriate certificate from the list, I'll get an "User authentication failed" error on the logon page. Like with a working installation I'll get the message "Your certificate will be mapped to your user ID", but this is not going to happen. Here the log:

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[BEGIN] Exception -

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javax.security.auth.login.LoginException: USER_AUTH_FAILED

at com.sap.security.core.logon.imp.SAPJ2EEAuthenticator.logon(SAPJ2EEAuthenticator.java:317)

at com.sapportals.portal.prt.service.authenticationservice.AuthenticationService.login(AuthenticationService.java:344)

at com.sapportals.portal.prt.connection.UMHandler.handleUM(UMHandler.java:126)

at com.sapportals.portal.prt.connection.ServletConnection.handleRequest(ServletConnection.java:178)

at com.sapportals.portal.prt.dispatcher.Dispatcher$doService.run(Dispatcher.java:545)

at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)

at com.sapportals.portal.prt.dispatcher.Dispatcher.service(Dispatcher.java:405)

at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)

at com.sap.engine.services.servlets_jsp.server.servlet.InvokerServlet.service(InvokerServlet.java:153)

at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)

at com.sap.engine.services.servlets_jsp.server.runtime.RequestDispatcherImpl.doWork(RequestDispatcherImpl.java:290)

at com.sap.engine.services.servlets_jsp.server.runtime.RequestDispatcherImpl.forward(RequestDispatcherImpl.java:346)

at com.sap.portal.navigation.Gateway.service(Gateway.java:68)

at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)

at com.sap.engine.services.servlets_jsp.server.HttpHandlerImpl.runServlet(HttpHandlerImpl.java:385)

at com.sap.engine.services.servlets_jsp.server.HttpHandlerImpl.handleRequest(HttpHandlerImpl.java:263)

at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.server.RequestAnalizer.startServlet(RequestAnalizer.java:340)

at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.server.RequestAnalizer.startServlet(RequestAnalizer.java:318)

at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.server.RequestAnalizer.invokeWebContainer(RequestAnalizer.java:824)

at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.server.RequestAnalizer.handle(RequestAnalizer.java:239)

at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.server.Client.handle(Client.java:92)

at com.sap.engine.services.httpserver.server.Processor.request(Processor.java:147)

at com.sap.engine.core.service630.context.cluster.session.ApplicationSessionMessageListener.process(ApplicationSessionMessageListener.java:37)

at com.sap.engine.core.cluster.impl6.session.UnorderedChannel$MessageRunner.run(UnorderedChannel.java:71)

at com.sap.engine.core.thread.impl3.ActionObject.run(ActionObject.java:37)

at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)

at com.sap.engine.core.thread.impl3.SingleThread.execute(SingleThread.java:94)

at com.sap.engine.core.thread.impl3.SingleThread.run(SingleThread.java:162)

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[ END ] Exception -

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Needless to say that any help on this is very appreciated!

Andreas Adler