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External authentication issue

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Hello, 

Kindly ask you to assist.

 

I am trying to configure external authentication but see the following error in log:

ERROR WebServerImpl:com.cloudera.server.cmf.WebServerImpl: Failed to configure external authentication. Server will act as if 'Database Only' authent
java.lang.RuntimeException: LDAP configuration is incomplete

 

Here is the configuration

 

 

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1 ACCEPTED SOLUTION

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Master Guru

Hi,

 

I am glad you solved the issue.  I agree that Cloudera Manager should help guide you about mandatory LDAP configuration in the UI, so I have opened a feature improvement Jira to request we look into that.

 

Thank you for the suggestion; it makes a lot of sense.

 

Cheers,

 

Ben

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I fugred out there are some fileds that are mandatory so need to be filled in but CM does not state that it is mandatory

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Master Guru

Hi,

 

I am glad you solved the issue.  I agree that Cloudera Manager should help guide you about mandatory LDAP configuration in the UI, so I have opened a feature improvement Jira to request we look into that.

 

Thank you for the suggestion; it makes a lot of sense.

 

Cheers,

 

Ben

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Thanks alot, i appreciate such a prompt reply.