Confluence working with CAS - If you're having problems with authentication

[William Zanchet [Atlassian]]

Just to share.
If you're configuring Confluence to talk with CAS, and you getting a stack-trace like this:

java.lang.ClassCastException: com.atlassian.confluence.user.SessionSafePrincipal cannot be cast to com.atlassian.user.User
at com.atlassian.confluence.user.AuthenticatedUserThreadLocal.getUser(AuthenticatedUserThreadLocal.java:25)
at com.atlassian.confluence.util.UserThreadLocalFilter.doFilter(UserThreadLocalFilter.java:36)
at com.atlassian.core.filters.AbstractHttpFilter.doFilter(AbstractHttpFilter.java:31)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
at com.atlassian.seraph.filter.SecurityFilter.doFilter(SecurityFilter.java:211)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
at com.atlassian.confluence.web.filter.ThreadLocalCacheFilter.doFilter(ThreadLocalCacheFilter.java:22)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
at com.atlassian.security.auth.trustedapps.filter.TrustedApplicationsFilter.doFilter(TrustedApplicationsFilter.java:98)
at com.atlassian.confluence.util.AbstractBootstrapHotSwappingFilter.doFilter(AbstractBootstrapHotSwappingFilter.java:30)
at com.atlassian.core.filters.AbstractHttpFilter.doFilter(AbstractHttpFilter.java:31)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
at com.atlassian.seraph.filter.BaseLoginFilter.doFilter(BaseLoginFilter.java:150)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:235)

[William Zanchet [Atlassian]]

Here is the path:

— java-cas-clients-orig/java-cas-client/cas-client-integration-atlassian/src/main/java/org/jasig/cas/client/integration/atlassian/ConfluenceCasAuthenticator.java 2013-05-06 10:41:42.000000000 -0400
+++ java-cas-clients/java-cas-client/cas-client-integration-atlassian/src/main/java/org/jasig/cas/client/integration/atlassian/ConfluenceCasAuthenticator.java 2013-05-06 10:53:42.000000000 -0400
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
// user already exists
if (session.getAttribute(LOGGED_IN_KEY) != null) { LOGGER.debug("Session found; user already logged in."); - return (Principal) session.getAttribute(LOGGED_IN_KEY); + return (Principal) getUserFromSession (request); }

final Assertion assertion = (Assertion) session.getAttribute(AbstractCasFilter.CONST_CAS_ASSERTION);