My Oracle Support Banner

Unable to authenticate in Workflow, 'Insufficient privileges to authenticate on behalf of another user' (Doc ID 2089414.1)

Last updated on MARCH 28, 2023

Applies to:

Oracle Business Process Management Suite - Version 11.1.1.7.0 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

Human task notifications are not getting sent and you see a permissions error in the logs regarding the workflowsystem user:

[2015-11-06T00:45:56.790-07:00] [soa_server1] [ERROR] [] [oracle.soa.services.workflow.query] [tid: [ACTIVE].ExecuteThread: '1' for queue: 'weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)'] [userId: ] [ecid: ] [APP: soa-infra] Insufficient privileges to authenticate on behalf of another user.[[
User workflowsystem cannot authenticate on behalf of user <user> without admin privileges.
Only users with admin privileges can authenticate on behalf of another user.
 ORABPEL-30509

Insufficient privileges to authenticate on behalf of another user.
User workflowsystem cannot authenticate on behalf of user <user> without admin privileges.
Only users with admin privileges can authenticate on behalf of another user.

  at oracle.bpel.services.workflow.verification.impl.VerificationService.authenticateUser(VerificationService.java:1107)
  at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
  at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
  at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
  at org.springframework.aop.support.AopUtils.invokeJoinpointUsingReflection(AopUtils.java:307)
  at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.invokeJoinpoint(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:182)
  at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:149)
  at oracle.bpel.services.workflow.common.WorkflowServiceCacheEventAdvice.invoke(WorkflowServiceCacheEventAdvice.java:102)
  at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:171)
  at oracle.bpel.services.common.dms.MethodPhaseEventAspect.invoke(MethodPhaseEventAspect.java:82)
  at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:171)
  at oracle.bpel.services.common.dms.MethodEventAspect.invoke(MethodEventAspect.java:70)
  at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:171)
  at org.springframework.aop.framework.JdkDynamicAopProxy.invoke(JdkDynamicAopProxy.java:204)
  at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy287.authenticateUser(Unknown Source)
  at oracle.bpel.services.workflow.query.impl.TaskQueryService.authenticateOnBehalfOf(TaskQueryService.java:601)
  at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
  at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
  at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
  at org.springframework.aop.support.AopUtils.invokeJoinpointUsingReflection(AopUtils.java:307)
  at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.invokeJoinpoint(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:182)
  at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:149)
  at oracle.bpel.services.workflow.common.WorkflowServiceCacheEventAdvice.invoke(WorkflowServiceCacheEventAdvice.java:102)
  at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:171)
  at oracle.bpel.services.workflow.test.workflow.ExceptionTestCaseBuilder.invoke(ExceptionTestCaseBuilder.java:155)
  at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:171)
  at oracle.bpel.services.common.dms.MethodEventAspect.invoke(MethodEventAspect.java:70)
  at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:171)
  at oracle.bpel.services.common.dms.MethodPhaseEventAspect.invoke(MethodPhaseEventAspect.java:82)
  at org.springframework.aop.framework.ReflectiveMethodInvocation.proceed(ReflectiveMethodInvocation.java:171)
  at org.springframework.aop.framework.JdkDynamicAopProxy.invoke(JdkDynamicAopProxy.java:204)
  at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy302.authenticateOnBehalfOf(Unknown Source)
  at oracle.bpel.services.workflow.task.notification.TaskNotifications.getNotificationUserContext(TaskNotifications.java:3457)
  at oracle.bpel.services.workflow.task.notification.TaskNotifications.getNotificationUserInternalContext(TaskNotifications.java:3444)
  at oracle.bpel.services.workflow.task.notification.TaskNotifications.getEmailNotificationContent(TaskNotifications.java:1065)
  at oracle.bpel.services.workflow.task.notification.TaskNotifications.sendEmailNotification(TaskNotifications.java:1034)
  ...

 

Cause

To view full details, sign in with your My Oracle Support account.

Don't have a My Oracle Support account? Click to get started!

In this Document
Symptoms
Cause
Solution
References


My Oracle Support provides customers with access to over a million knowledge articles and a vibrant support community of peers and Oracle experts.