Shibboleth Login Issue DSpace 6.3

[Jeff Stone]

Hello All,

I have followed all the documentation I can to setup shibboleth authentication with Dspace.  The Shibboleth SP is installed, I can see the attributes that I need and when I have logged in, it does create  a eperson record, but when logging in they are hit with a Single Sign Out feature is not implemented.

I have turned on DEBUG and the following is shown :

 DEBUG org.dspace.authenticate.ShibAuthentication @ Updated the eperson's minimal metadata: 

 Email Header: 'mail' = 'us...@xxx.com' 

 First Name Header: 'givenName' = 'xxxxx' 

 Last Name Header: 'givenName' = 'xxxxxx'

2019-05-14 13:50:53,596 ERROR org.dspace.authenticate.ShibAuthentication @ Unable to successfully authenticate using shibboleth for user because of an exception.

java.lang.NullPointerException

at org.dspace.content.DSpaceObjectServiceImpl.match(DSpaceObjectServiceImpl.java:429)

at org.dspace.content.DSpaceObjectServiceImpl.clearMetadata(DSpaceObjectServiceImpl.java:340)

at org.dspace.content.DSpaceObjectServiceImpl.setMetadataSingleValue(DSpaceObjectServiceImpl.java:395)

at org.dspace.eperson.EPersonServiceImpl.setMetadata(EPersonServiceImpl.java:393)

at org.dspace.authenticate.ShibAuthentication.updateEPerson(ShibAuthentication.java:844)

at org.dspace.authenticate.ShibAuthentication.authenticate(ShibAuthentication.java:225)

at org.dspace.authenticate.AuthenticationServiceImpl.authenticateInternal(AuthenticationServiceImpl.java:111)

at org.dspace.authenticate.AuthenticationServiceImpl.authenticate(AuthenticationServiceImpl.java:81)

at org.dspace.app.webui.servlet.ShibbolethServlet.doDSGet(ShibbolethServlet.java:69)

at org.dspace.app.webui.servlet.DSpaceServlet.processRequest(DSpaceServlet.java:126)

at org.dspace.app.webui.servlet.DSpaceServlet.doGet(DSpaceServlet.java:73)

at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:635)

at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:742)

at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:231)

at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:166)

at org.apache.tomcat.websocket.server.WsFilter.doFilter(WsFilter.java:52)

at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:193)

at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:166)

at org.dspace.utils.servlet.DSpaceWebappServletFilter.doFilter(DSpaceWebappServletFilter.java:78)

at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:193)

at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:166)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:198)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:96)

at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:493)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:140)

at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:81)

at org.apache.catalina.valves.AbstractAccessLogValve.invoke(AbstractAccessLogValve.java:650)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:87)

at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:342)

at org.apache.coyote.ajp.AjpProcessor.service(AjpProcessor.java:479)

at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProcessorLight.process(AbstractProcessorLight.java:66)

at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$ConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:806)

at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint$SocketProcessor.doRun(NioEndpoint.java:1498)

at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.SocketProcessorBase.run(SocketProcessorBase.java:49)

at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149)

at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624)

at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:61)

at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748)

2019-05-14 13:50:53,598 INFO  org.dspace.app.webui.servlet.ShibbolethServlet @ anonymous:session_id=A06D060FB96B3130E1635528953A1D1C:ip_addr=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:failed_login:result=4

I'm not sure what I can do next to get this working. Can anyone help ?

Thanks

Jeff

[Library Systems]

According to this thread, DSpace may not be able to recognize the eperson record as a user.  Possibly you could adjust the Service Provider attribute mappings to fix this.

Glenn