Shibboleth IDPv4 on Windows (New Install)

[Michael Young]

On Fri, 15 Jul 2022, Rick Hoodenpyle wrote:

> Thanks for the response Rod. I stopped the service, cleared out the logs
> completely, restarted the service. When it came back up there were no
> errors or warnings in the log, just Info entries. So I then changed my
> Website to point to it for authentication and I see the message on the
> browser window say An error occurred: FlowExecutionException and then I
> have the errors in the log. I am including the full log as of this time
> from a clean start of the IDP service. This is the first time of setting
> up Shibboleth IdP, have had no problem setting up ADFS, Azure SAML
> application, Okta SAML application, and usually no problems setting up
> Shibboleth SP connecting any IdP that is working. Maybe the "No Plugins
> Loaded" or the "Algorithm failed" Info messages have something to do with
> it?

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> 2022-07-15 06:03:12,747 - 192.168.0.241 - WARN
> [net.shibboleth.ext.spring.context.FilesystemGenericWebApplicationContext:
> 591] - Exception encountered during context initialization - cancelling
> refresh attempt: org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException:
> Error creating bean with name 'shibboleth.authn.Password.Validators':
> Cannot resolve reference to bean 'shibboleth.LDAPValidator' while setting
> bean property 'sourceList' with key [0]; nested exception is
> org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating
> bean with name 'ValidateUsernamePasswordAgainstLDAP' defined in class path
> resource [net/shibboleth/idp/flows/authn/password-authn-beans.xml]: Cannot
> resolve reference to bean 'shibboleth.authn.LDAP.authenticator' while
> setting bean property 'authenticator'; nested exception is
> org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating
> bean with name 'shibboleth.authn.LDAP.authenticator' defined in class path
> resource [net/shibboleth/idp/flows/authn/password-authn-beans.xml]:

Do you have the idp.authn.Password module enabled? Looking at my Linux 
install shibboleth.LDAPValidator and shibboleth.authn.Password.Validators 
are configured in the conf/authn/password-authn-config.xml file which is 
part of that module. Of course it might be different for a Windows 
install.

 	Michael Young