Our LDAP Users are Unable to Login After Upgrade
Asked by S_ Toyo:

Can someone tell us how to fix this? None of us can login to our own confluence after the upgrade.......


Answers:
author: Shankar Asam {Appfire}
body: The errors in the logs will tell us what kind of issue you're running into. If you're unable to figure out the admin account name, you could look at below article from Atlassian on identifying the admin account.

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf64/restore-passwords-to-recover-admin-user-rights-936511358.html>

Once, you're able to identify - login in with local admin account (internal) and try checking the synchronise option and also will be able to see the directory configuration summary to identify LDAP vs LDAPS.

The keystore related stuff in server.xml tells that your confluence is running on HTTPS. check the server.xml to see where the keystore file was located and try to restore it or available to the new confluence. If required, you might need to point your JAVA_HOME to the older JAVA_HOME used by your previous installation and check if the issue gets resolved. You can also visit the below link for SSL certs import;

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf63/running-confluence-over-ssl-or-https-929729905.html>

Regards,


author: Shankar Asam {Appfire}
body: It's certainly SSL certs issue. You are connecting the LDAP over SSL so it requires the LDAP certs should be loaded into your Confluence's Java Keystore. Please see the following KB article from Atlassian on Importing certs.

<https://confluence.atlassian.com/kb/unable-to-connect-to-ssl-services-due-to-pkix-path-building-failed-error-779355358.html>

-Shankar


author: S_ Toyo
body: [@Shankar Asam {Appfire}](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/699829)I tried to login and synchronize and it failed.

![2019-08-07_13-44-27.png](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/62711i575C6A5A64F03F61/image-size/large?v=v2&px=999 "2019-08-07_13-44-27.png")


author: S_ Toyo
body: [@Shankar Asam {Appfire}](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/699829)I do see some weird looking active directory failures in our logs.

We just upgraded our confluence not migrate to a different server.

We have not clicked on synchronize option under the User Directories yet. In order for us to even get back into our confluence we had to figure out what was our local admin account. Because that was literally the ONLY account that worked after we upgraded. It killed everyone elses access to get into our Confluence page.

I believe we are using just LDAP. How can I tell if we are using LDAPS? I was not the previous person who setup and install our Confluence. I am just the person upgrading it for the first time. So I am new to this. But I did notice that before I upgraded that server.xml file did have a section in it that had a keystore password. I am not quite sure what to do with that so I just copy + pasted it into the newly created server.xml after I upgraded Confluence......

So I am not sure how to RE-INSTALL the SSL cert into the JAVA keystore? I do notice that when we try now access our confluence page through Chrome browser it asks if I want to trust this website. Is this because I didn't re-import my cert? Please help!


author: Shankar Asam {Appfire}
body: Hi S.Toyo,

Below are few questions on the issue,

Do you see any errors in the logs file during the authentication of a LDAP user?

Did you upgrade the confluence or migrated to a different server?

Did you try to click on Synchronise option under user directories of confluence? Any errors reported?

Are you using LDAP or LDAPS? If its LDAPS? did the SSL certs installed in JAVA keystore?

thanks

Shankar


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