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SECJ0118E with form authentication and spnego enabled


Our deployment keeps getting an odd SECJ0118E  exception when authenticating with Form authentication with Mozilla or Chrome browser not configured for Active Directory Domain.

All instructions into WebSphere infocenter for enabling fallback to default authentication were correctly applied.  We noticed that standard WebSphere security tracing (*=info:com.ibm.ws.security.*=all:com.ibm.websphere.security.*=all:com.ibm.websphere.wim.*=all:com.ibm.wsspi.wim.*=all:com.ibm.ws.wim.*=all) 
provided into trace a lot of Kerberos exceptions. 

[30/12/13 17.36.57:246 CET] 0000005e Krb5LoginModu < login() Exit
javax.security.auth.login.FailedLoginException: Errore di login: com.ibm.security.krb5.KrbException, codice di stato: 68
messaggio: Nessuno
at com.ibm.security.jgss.i18n.I18NException.throwFailedLoginException(I18NException.java:30)
at com.ibm.security.auth.module.Krb5LoginModule.a(Krb5LoginModule.java:719)
at com.ibm.security.auth.module.Krb5LoginModule.b(Krb5LoginModule.java:742)


Double checking WebSphere security settings we noticed that Authentication mechanism was mistakenly set to Kerberos and LTPA instead of simple LTPA, as suggested for SPNEGO. 

Reverting back to simple LTPA fixed everything. 

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