RE: Auto login with NTLM without going to \login

Divya K, modified 5 Years ago. New Member Posts: 2 Join Date: 2/29/16 Recent Posts
I have installed Liferay 6.2 CE bundled with tomcat 7.0
Environment :CentOS 7 with Microsoft Active Directory on Windows Server 2012 R2
I'm trying to configure NTLM with liferay-portal-6.2-ce-ga4
but I cannot authenticate the user against Active Directory.I have followed the documentation which is available in the web.
according to the documentation, I have created a Service Account in AD to use NTLM for authentication.
But, I'm getting the following error :
14:26:10,135 ERROR [http-bio-8080-exec-5][NtlmFilter:235] Unable to perform NTLM authentication
com.liferay.portal.security.ntlm.NtlmLogonException: Unable to authenticate user: Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password.
at com.liferay.portal.security.ntlm.Netlogon.logon(Netlogon.java:84)
at com.liferay.portal.security.ntlm.NtlmManager.authenticate(NtlmManager.java:69)
at com.liferay.portal.servlet.filters.sso.ntlm.NtlmFilter.processFilter(NtlmFilter.java:230)
at com.liferay.portal.kernel.servlet.BaseFilter.doFilter(BaseFilter.java:59)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:243)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:210)
at com.liferay.portal.kernel.servlet.filters.invoker.InvokerFilterChain.doFilter(InvokerFilterChain.java:116)
at com.liferay.portal.kernel.servlet.BaseFilter.processFilter(BaseFilter.java:169)
at com.liferay.portal.servlet.filters.strip.StripFilter.processFilter(StripFilter.java:359)
at com.liferay.portal.kernel.servlet.BaseFilter.doFilter(BaseFilter.java:59)
at com.liferay.portal.kernel.servlet.filters.invoker.InvokerFilterChain.processDoFilter(InvokerFilterChain.java:204)
at com.liferay.portal.kernel.servlet.filters.invoker.InvokerFilterChain.doFilter(InvokerFilterChain.java:109)
at com.liferay.portal.kernel.servlet.BaseFilter.processFilter(BaseFilter.java:169)
at com.liferay.portal.servlet.filters.gzip.GZipFilter.processFilter(GZipFilter.java:123)
at com.liferay.portal.kernel.servlet.BaseFilter.doFilter(BaseFilter.java:59)
at com.liferay.portal.kernel.servlet.filters.invoker.InvokerFilterChain.processDoFilter(InvokerFilterChain.java:204)
at com.liferay.portal.kernel.servlet.filters.invoker.InvokerFilterChain.doFilter(InvokerFilterChain.java:109)
at com.liferay.portal.kernel.servlet.BaseFilter.processFilter(BaseFilter.java:169)
at com.liferay.portal.servlet.filters.secure.SecureFilter.processFilter(SecureFilter.java:293)
at com.liferay.portal.kernel.servlet.BaseFilter.doFilter(BaseFilter.java:59)
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Karthik Nainupatruni, modified 5 Years ago. Junior Member Posts: 28 Join Date: 5/5/15 Recent Posts
Hi Divya,
Which service account you have been using in Liferay configurations , User account or System account ? 
it should be System/Computer account. not a user account.