Could not login as default Admin

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Ver 11.10.8, Tomcat 9.43, HSQL and CentOS 7

This morning I could not login as administrator. It is not saying wrong password or other error messages.
LDAP is working i.e. I can login as a AD user.
I restarted the tomcat still dont see any changes.
I enabled superadmin and able to login and even I changed the password of admin user. Still I could not login as administrator.

Tried to reset the password. Got the link and able to reset password. Still I could not login.

Catalina.out shows
2020-09-01 05:45:20,271 [http://10.235.25.203:8080/xwiki/bin/loginsubmit/XWiki/XWikiLogin] WARN nticationFailureLoggerListener - Authentication failure with login [adminuser]

Any pointers?

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Does this means, the default first user will not be able to login after integrating another authentication (e.g. LDAP)?

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Appreciate any help on this topic.

4

I think the LDAP auth falls back on the XWiki auth by default (maybe there’s a way to make it not fall back and you configured that? I’ve not used the LDAP auth so I don’t know it works very well).

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Depends on each authenticator. As indicated (and recommended) on https://extensions.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Extension/LDAP/Authenticator/#HGenericLDAPconfiguration you can tell the LDAP authenticator to try a standard XWiki auth if the LDAP one fails.

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Actually it’s not by default as Thomas pointed out, you need to configure it.