LDAP/AD working, but "Test get user's memberships with 0 groups retrieved: Failed"

Question

Hi all - got our JIRA instance up and running with sync to AD/LDAP but on the test settings I receive:

"Test get user's memberships with 0 groups retrieved. : Failed"

I am not quite sure what this is trying to do or why it isn't working.

I get "Test user can authenticate : Succeeded" and I can log in as other users, but the group error has me concerned and confused.

Any advice is greatly appreciated!

John Bruer · Answer

I just set up JIRA on a fresh OpenLDAP directory. This test appears to fail with a user that has no group memeberships at all. JIRA will sync fine. Once the test is run again and JIRA can retrieve memeberships from a user, then it succeeds.

My guess: not all directories are configured with attributes on the user that denote group membership, and so JIRA will give a failure when it doesn't detect any. If you don't expect it to detect any, then just proceed. Otherwise, check the settings to make sure your users' group membership attribute is correct.

Jon30 · Answer

Thanks all!  It does synchronize - my user window populates from AD w/ all my users, but the check just seemed like something that should work.  I recreated it a couple times (once in hSQL and once now in SQL Server 2008 instance) and both "failed".  Though, it works.  Puzzling.

GuilhermeA · Answer

Hey Jon,

Its also worth looking the type of your Directory, try changing the directory type to Generic and see if this resolves as well.

And if the test is still failing skip it, and try to synchronize it, it could be trying to perform just a check.

Cheers,

Guilherme