Authentication with Ldap not working

[Peter Schober]

* Kevin Flückiger <kevin.flueckiger at inovitas.ch> [2015-03-13 11:32]:
> By restarting the container you mean restarting tomcat or how do you
> mean that?

Yes, Tomcat is a Java Servlet Container (there are also others).

> I just saw the following line in the logs: Setting JAAS
> configuration file to: file:///opt/shibboleth-idp/conf/login.config
> This actually is the file I am editing. Would this be the behavior
> if there is a syntax error in the JAAS config?
> Do you have any hint how I could track this down? I'm more than ever
> out of ideas what to do...

JAAS debuggig is a dark art. I recall a message from Brent (?) from a
couple of years back, which had good tips on how to squeeze some
logging out of the JVM but I can't find it atm.
-peter