Auto login with NTLM without going to \login https://liferay.dev/c/message_boards/find_thread?p_l_id=119785294&threadId=117474954 2026-04-04T08:59:28Z 2026-04-04T08:59:28Z Karthik Nainupatruni https://liferay.dev/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=119785294&messageId=118353403 2020-01-28T04:46:50Z 2020-01-28T04:46:50Z

Hi Divya,<br />Which service account you have been using in Liferay configurations , User account or System account ? <br />it should be System/Computer account. not a user account.

Karthik Nainupatruni 2020-01-28T04:46:50Z Divya K https://liferay.dev/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=119785294&messageId=117474953 2019-10-17T10:16:49Z 2019-10-17T10:16:49Z

I have installed Liferay 6.2 CE bundled with tomcat 7.0<br />Environment :CentOS 7 with Microsoft Active Directory on Windows Server 2012 R2<br />I&#39;m trying to configure NTLM with liferay-portal-6.2-ce-ga4<br />but I cannot authenticate the user against Active Directory.I have followed the documentation which is available in the web.<br />according to the documentation, I have created a Service Account in AD to use NTLM for authentication.<br />But, I&#39;m getting the following error :<br />14:26:10,135 ERROR [http-bio-8080-exec-5][NtlmFilter:235] Unable to perform NTLM authentication<br />com.liferay.portal.security.ntlm.NtlmLogonException: Unable to authenticate user: Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password.<br />at com.liferay.portal.security.ntlm.Netlogon.logon(Netlogon.java:84)<br />at com.liferay.portal.security.ntlm.NtlmManager.authenticate(NtlmManager.java:69)<br />at com.liferay.portal.servlet.filters.sso.ntlm.NtlmFilter.processFilter(NtlmFilter.java:230)<br />at com.liferay.portal.kernel.servlet.BaseFilter.doFilter(BaseFilter.java:59)<br />at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:243)<br />at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:210)<br />at com.liferay.portal.kernel.servlet.filters.invoker.InvokerFilterChain.doFilter(InvokerFilterChain.java:116)<br />at com.liferay.portal.kernel.servlet.BaseFilter.processFilter(BaseFilter.java:169)<br />at com.liferay.portal.servlet.filters.strip.StripFilter.processFilter(StripFilter.java:359)<br />at com.liferay.portal.kernel.servlet.BaseFilter.doFilter(BaseFilter.java:59)<br />at com.liferay.portal.kernel.servlet.filters.invoker.InvokerFilterChain.processDoFilter(InvokerFilterChain.java:204)<br />at com.liferay.portal.kernel.servlet.filters.invoker.InvokerFilterChain.doFilter(InvokerFilterChain.java:109)<br />at com.liferay.portal.kernel.servlet.BaseFilter.processFilter(BaseFilter.java:169)<br />at com.liferay.portal.servlet.filters.gzip.GZipFilter.processFilter(GZipFilter.java:123)<br />at com.liferay.portal.kernel.servlet.BaseFilter.doFilter(BaseFilter.java:59)<br />at com.liferay.portal.kernel.servlet.filters.invoker.InvokerFilterChain.processDoFilter(InvokerFilterChain.java:204)<br />at com.liferay.portal.kernel.servlet.filters.invoker.InvokerFilterChain.doFilter(InvokerFilterChain.java:109)<br />at com.liferay.portal.kernel.servlet.BaseFilter.processFilter(BaseFilter.java:169)<br />at com.liferay.portal.servlet.filters.secure.SecureFilter.processFilter(SecureFilter.java:293)<br />at com.liferay.portal.kernel.servlet.BaseFilter.doFilter(BaseFilter.java:59)

Divya K 2019-10-17T10:16:49Z