LDAP issue with Sakai 25.1

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Mishel Maurice

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Feb 5, 2026, 2:12:51 PMFeb 5
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Greetings, 

I built sakai 25.1on an isolated environment. I can login using local accounts, but all my efforts to link sakai to active directory failed. 

I searched up the issue online and there is a opinion of standing CAS server, we don’t have that capability at the moment, can we link directly to Active directory to get user to login using their AD accounts?

 

I edited the unbounded_ldap.xml file as directed but I am still getting login failed in Catalina.out everytime I try to login.

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Sam Ottenhoff

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Feb 5, 2026, 2:18:21 PMFeb 5
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Yes, Sakai works great directly against an LDAP server.

1) components.xml must import the unboundid XML
2) turn up debugging in the logs for the relevant code
3) restart sakai
4) post the relevant errors in catalina.out

Are you connecting on clear-text port or LDAPs port? Is it a real cert or self-signed? Did you import the cert into a custom keystore?

--Sam

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Mishel Yossef

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Feb 5, 2026, 2:23:54 PMFeb 5
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I did the component.xml 
Edited the the unboundid_ldap.xml
We are using LDAPS BUT THE SERVER DOESNT HAVE real cert we are using self signed. We imported dc and it is ca and root to the java trust store

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Mishel Yossef


Mishel Yossef

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Feb 5, 2026, 3:18:06 PMFeb 5
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We are using container.login=true and top logging false
In the top of all the file attached there is a line that said failed to login empty identifier

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Mishel Yossef


catalina.out.txt

Sam Ottenhoff

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Feb 5, 2026, 3:20:31 PMFeb 5
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Container login is a very different concept (SAML or CAS) and not relevant here.

Sakai can't communicate with your AD server dc.server.name.com:636. Either because of network rules or because of lack of trust (keystore).

Mishel Yossef

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Feb 5, 2026, 4:13:43 PMFeb 5
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But I tried ldap search and it was successful. I added all the certs to java trust store

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Mishel Yossef


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