Consolidated Troubleshooting Article for Red Hat Satellite 6.x Authentication Issues

General Issues

• Error Encountered in Setting Up External LDAP Authentication in Red Hat Satellite 6 due to Weak SSL Certificate Key
• The old LDAP connector is not visible from the web GUI and from CLI ... is there a way to get this connector visible?
• Webui login is slow with LDAP authentication on Red Hat Satellite 6
• [Satellite 6] Login to satellite with LDAP user fails with error "Oops, we're sorry but something went wrong / undefined method `each' for nil:NilClass"
• API calls to Satellite fail intermittently on LDAP authentication
• Attempting to login in via LDAP authentication source configured on Satellite 6 installed on RHEL 7 gives connection error.
• Authenticate Satellite users on RADIUS authentication source
• While creating user with hammer having external authentication source LDAP/AD results in error: Could not create the user: Missing arguments for user[password] in Red Hat Satellite.
• Adding LDAP authentication provider using hammer doesn't show up in webgui
• LDAP authentication not working after Satellite 6.1.x upgrade
• This content is not included.LDAP Authentication hangs for several minutes on Satellite 6
• "hammer auth-source ldap list" shows "404 Resource Not Found"
• Configure Satellite 6 for new LDAP user inherit Location and Organization preferences from Administer / Roles
• External LDAP authentication fails with error '([Net::LDAP::Error]: hostname "ad.example.com" does not match the server certificate)'

Active Directory-related Issues

• AD user fails to login on Satellite WebUI with error (LdapFluff::Generic::UnauthenticatedException): Could not bind to ActiveDirectory user
• Can not login to Red Hat Satellite WebUI using Active Directory user
• Error after login (Virt-who and Active Directory)
• Active Directory User is not created upon first time login to Red Hat Satellite 6.
• After enabling Active Directory (AD) as an external authentication source for Satellite Server cannot login to WebUI
• When login on GUI with 'Active Directory users' Roles are not assigning as per 'Users Group' on Red Hat Satellite 6.

ForgeRock-related Issues

• LDAP users from ForgeRock DS are automatically created but are not placed in the assigned user group in Red Hat Satellite 6

How To

• How to change admin password through CLI on Red Hat Satellite 6?
• How to configure Active Directory authentication with TLS on Red Hat Satellite 6?
• LDAP Authentication Troubleshooting via foreman-rake - LdapFluff::Generic::UnauthenticatedException: Could not bind to ActiveDirectory user in Red Hat Satellite 6.
• How to configure multiple LDAP servers with Red Hat Satellite 6?
• Using hammer to create a satellite user-group authenticated via AD
• How to configure satellite 6 so that when users from LDAP connect for the first time they are added to an organisation and given a role?
• How to automatically assign roles for externally authenticated users on Red Hat Satellite 6?
• How to configure External user groups on Satellite so first time they are logged in gets added to an organisation and given a role?

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