User Authentication Fails When Groups In External LDAP Contains Trailing White Spaces

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

Last updated on NOVEMBER 05, 2016

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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