AuthnFailed response from UsernamePassword handler

[David Langenberg]

Tried to file a bug, when I shib'd into Jira I got this:

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On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 9:14 AM, Cantor, Scott <cantor.2 at osu.edu> wrote:

> On 12/7/12 11:05 AM, "David Langenberg" <davel at uchicago.edu> wrote:
>
> >  Ordinarily in our setup if a user fails to authN they just get sent
> >back to the login screen again.  Our setup is fairly stock with the
> >exception that we replaced the default storage service with the memcache
> >storage service.
>
> The timestamps in the log suggest that it's flowing through the redirect
> to the login handler and back to the AuthnEngine with no stop in between
> to even try to log the user in. That doesn't seem right to me. If you file
> a bug, I'll eventually try and identify if there's a code path that would
> make that possible. But I don't know offhand what could cause it.
>
> I would check your web server access logs also and see what the actual URL
> requests look like in that sequence.
>
> -- Scott
>
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David Langenberg
Identity & Access Management
The University of Chicago
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