EM 13c: Enterprise Manager 13c Cloud Control Fails to Authenticate with External Active Directory: [Security:090302]Authentication Failed: User specified user denied (Doc ID 2724444.1)

Last updated on MARCH 07, 2024

Applies to:

Symptoms

Enterprise Manager (EM) 13.4 Cloud Control

EM is not authenticating with MS Active Directory (AD).

EM has been configured to use Active Directory as an External Authentication Provider.

A new EM user can be linked with AD but an authentication failure results on login with this user and the AD password.

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<OMS_INSTANCE_BASE>/gc_inst/user_projects/domains/GCDomain/servers/emgc_oms1/logs/emgc_oms1.log shows numerous errors:

<005dpjAP405A5UIMyqvX6G0006sd00000W> <1591387563124> <[severity-value: 128] [rid: 0:1:19] [partition-id: 0] [partition-name: DOMAIN] > <BEA-000000> <weblogic.security.providers.authentication.LDAPAtnLoginModuleImpl.login exception:
java.security.PrivilegedActionException: javax.security.auth.login.FailedLoginException: [Security:090938]Authentication failure: The specified user failed to log in. javax.security.auth.login.FailedLoginException: [Security:090302]Authentication Failed: User specified user denied
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at com.bea.common.security.internal.service.LoginModuleWrapper.login(LoginModuleWrapper.java:114)
    at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor824.invoke(Unknown Source)
    at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
    at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:498)
    at javax.security.auth.login.LoginContext.invoke(LoginContext.java:755)
    at javax.security.auth.login.LoginContext.access$000(LoginContext.java:195)
    at javax.security.auth.login.LoginContext$4.run(LoginContext.java:682)
    at javax.security.auth.login.LoginContext$4.run(LoginContext.java:680)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at javax.security.auth.login.LoginContext.invokePriv(LoginContext.java:680)
    at javax.security.auth.login.LoginContext.login(LoginContext.java:587)
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Caused By: javax.security.auth.login.FailedLoginException: [Security:090938]Authentication failure: The specified user failed to log in. javax.security.auth.login.FailedLoginException: [Security:090302]Authentication Failed: User specified user denied
    at com.bea.common.security.utils.ExceptionHandler.throwFailedLoginException(ExceptionHandler.java:62)
    at weblogic.security.providers.authentication.LDAPAtnLoginModuleImpl.login(LDAPAtnLoginModuleImpl.java:380)
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Cause

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