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<p class="MsoNormal">All,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I have recently created a new Omero server (version 4.4.8), but I have not been able to configure this new server to authenticate using LDAP.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I have configured the LDAP properties in “/opt/OMERO.server-4.4.8-ice33-b256/etc/omero.properties” to be identical to another Omero server that I have already build, which is running Omero version 4.4.6. I have also issued the command
lines to set the appropriate variables, (bin/omero config set omero.ldap.*). The LDAP authentication is, however, still failing on the new server.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">When I attempt to login to the new server with a User that is configured to use LDAP, I see the following
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">2013-07-09 10:26:59,121 INFO [ ome.services.util.ServiceHandler] (l.Server-8) Excp: java.lang.ClassCastException: [B cannot be cast to java.lang.Comparable<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">2013-07-09 10:26:59,122 ERROR [services.blitz.fire.PermissionsVerifierI] (l.Server-8) Exception thrown while checking password for:webberj<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">[B cannot be cast to java.lang.Comparable<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt"> at java.util.TreeMap.compare(TreeMap.java:1188)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I have checked the for the Java and LDAP packages that are installed on my server (which is running “CentOS release 5.9 (Final)”), but I believe that these look correct.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please can anyone give me some guidance as to what this issue might be related to?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">John<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:12.0pt;background:white"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#548DD4;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">John Webber<br>
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<a href="mailto:john.webber@nbi.ac.uk"><span style="color:blue">john.webber@nbi.ac.uk</span></a></span><span style="color:#0F126F;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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