RemoteAuthorizationException

[scknight2]

How can I determine what caused a RemoteAuthorizationException when using Acegi with remoting? It seems to always return "Bad credentials" even when I supply a username that does not exist.

Thanks.

[Ben Alex]

This is often by design. Try setting the DaoAuthenticationProvider.hideUserNotFoundExceptio ns property. Also note the code of RemoteAuthenticationManagerImpl does expose the exception message:

    public GrantedAuthority[] attemptAuthentication(String username,
        String password) throws RemoteAuthenticationException {
        UsernamePasswordAuthenticationToken request = new UsernamePasswordAuthenticationToken(username,
                password);

        try {
            return authenticationManager.authenticate(request).getAuthorities();
        } catch (AuthenticationException authEx) {
            throw new RemoteAuthenticationException(authEx.getMessage());
        }
    }