custom flow problems

[Jim Fox]

Having trouble with custom authn flows.

If I make a replica of the remoteuser flow, say, remoteuserplus,
and keep the replica in (base)system/flows/authn the new flow works correctly.
I can use it to process, for example, forced-authn, as described
in an earlier email.  It is using the same RemoteUserAuthServlet as does remoteuser.
All is well.

If I take that flow definition (with bean and config definitions) and
move it to the local area, (base)/flows/authn, it does not work.  Instead I get an
exception in ExternalAuthenticationImpl.doStart because authnContext.getAttemptedFlow() is NULL.

The exception comes from invocation of RemoteUserAuthServlet.service.


Is there some authnContext scoping that gets between the distributed flows
and the local flows?

Jim