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Dec 07, 2011 at 09:33 PM

Enterprise XI 3.1 trusted authentication problems

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I followed the instructions to enable trusted authentication (XI 3.1 admin guide, page 561+):

  • created shared secret value in CMC ('my_secret'); checked 'trusted authentication is enabled; set secret validity period to 1; left tmeout at 0

  • created the TrustedPrinicpal.conf file in C:\Program Files\Business Objects\BusinessObjects Enterprise 12.0\win32_x86

  • added line to file that reads SharedSecret=my_secret; saved file

  • edited InfoView's web.xml file located at C:\Program Files\Business Objects\BusinessObjects Enterprise 12.0\warfiles\WebApps\InfoViewApp\WEB-INF

  • made the following changes:

<context-param>

<param-name>siteminder.enabled</param-name>

<!-- <param-value>true</param-value> -->

<param-value>false</param-value>

</context-param>

<context-param>

<param-name>sso.enabled</param-name>

<!-- <param-value>false</param-value> -->

<param-value>true</param-value>

</context-param>

<context-param>

<param-name>trusted.auth.user.retrieval</param-name>

<param-value>QUERY_STRING</param-value>

</context-param>

<context-param>

<param-name>trusted.auth.user.param</param-name>

<param-value>user_name</param-value>

</context-param>

  • restarted tomcat and server intelligence agent (probably not necessary, but did it just for good measure)

  • attempted to logon to InfoView: http://localhost:8080/InfoViewApp/logon/start.do?user_name=foobar

didn't get an error message, but it didn't get past the logon page.

What did I miss?