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<p class="MsoNormal">Took us a few weeks to rule out CAS then our Banner Admin did this:<o:p></o:p></p>
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</span><span style="font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">Assumes tomcat is running as user banner</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">
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</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"> sudo to root
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</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">echo -e "banner soft nofile 65536\nbanner hard nofile 65536" > /etc/security/limits.d/99-banner.conf</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">
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</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif">exit root and restart banner user processes</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">Taylor<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Taylor Hucker</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><br>
Applications System Administrator<br>
Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi<br>
</span><span style="color:black;background:white"><a href="mailto:Taylor.Hucker@tamucc.edu"><span style="color:#0563C1">Taylor.Hucker@tamucc.edu</span></a></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From:
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">users <users-bounces@shibboleth.net> on behalf of Rene Paquin <rpaquin@wlu.ca><br>
<b>Date: </b>Friday, March 26, 2021 at 2:45 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>Shib Users <users@shibboleth.net><br>
<b>Subject: </b>RE: CAS authentication issue<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi Taylor,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks for the response. Our issue is with Ellucian Banner. I will look into this. What did you set the file limit to?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks again,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Rene<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> users <users-bounces@shibboleth.net> <b>On Behalf Of
</b>Hucker, Taylor<br>
<b>Sent:</b> March 26, 2021 3:35 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Shib Users <users@shibboleth.net><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: CAS authentication issue<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Rene,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We had a similar issue with an Ellucian application.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Which unexplained IdP reboots seemed to clear items up but wasn’t the cause it was just coincidental it worked.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Our issue was an open file limit on our linux application side (Ellucian banner, not IdP).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black"> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">Thanks,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">Taylor</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black">Taylor Hucker</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif;color:black"><br>
Applications System Administrator<br>
Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi<br>
</span><span style="color:black;background:white"><a href="mailto:Taylor.Hucker@tamucc.edu"><span style="color:#0563C1">Taylor.Hucker@tamucc.edu</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From:
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">users <<a href="mailto:users-bounces@shibboleth.net">users-bounces@shibboleth.net</a>> on behalf of Rene Paquin <<a href="mailto:rpaquin@wlu.ca">rpaquin@wlu.ca</a>><br>
<b>Date: </b>Friday, March 26, 2021 at 1:43 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>Shib Users <<a href="mailto:users@shibboleth.net">users@shibboleth.net</a>><br>
<b>Subject: </b>CAS authentication issue</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Since moving to IDP 4.01 we are having some CAS authentication issues. It seems quite random, maybe 2 -3 times a week and a reboot of one or sometimes both IDP servers resolves the issue until it happens again. Here is what is happening<o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">User browser accesses CAS application<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">Browser is redirected to IDP login page<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">User enters credential (browser) authenticated at IDP<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">IDP sent a CAS ticket back to the browser, and redirect the browser back to CAS application<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">Browser presents the CAS ticket number to CAS application<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">CAS application server sends ticket validation request to IDP server<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">IDP validates the ticket, and return to the CAS application server a SOAP wrapped SAML response.
<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo3">User only sees a blank page in the browser<o:p></o:p></li></ol>
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<p class="MsoNormal">When it’s working, between step 7 and 8, it should be the CAS application servers received SOAP message and continue to display the resources to user in the browser.
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<p class="MsoNormal">Any ideas? This is really puzzling us.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
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Rene Paquin - Systems Administrator <br>
Wilfrid Laurier University<br>
Waterloo, Ontario<br>
(519)884-0710 x3795<br>
<a href="mailto:rpaquin@wlu.ca" target="_blank">rpaquin@wlu.ca</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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