User Authentication Fails When Groups In External LDAP Contains Trailing White Spaces (Doc ID 1407594.1)

Last updated on DECEMBER 11, 2017

Applies to:

Oracle WebLogic Server - Version 10.3.3 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Users, belonging to groups that contain trailing white spaces, fails to authenticate.

Consider a User "Test1" which belongs to group "TestGroup " in the External LDAP.

The application is configured to allow login access to all users of "TestGroup ". [Notice the white space after group name TestGroup .]

However, with securityAtn Debug enabled, we see that it gives the below message for Testgroup

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