RSA Product/Service Type: Authentication Manager
RSA Version/Condition: 8.x
Unable to resolve trusted user because multiple matching trusted users exist
Authentication Manager trusted realm configuration allows duplicate user creation/addition to the trusted user list if the case in the user ID is different; for example, user.name vs User.Name, or as shown in the example below with bharath versus Bharath.
If there is a user ID of user.name in Authentication Manager when a trusted realm is setup, and then you try to add a trusted realm user manually called user.name it will fail with the following message:
Remote principal already exists
If you then try to add User.Name the system allows for that user to be added, resulting in duplicate user IDs in the system:
The /opt/rsa/am/server/imsTrace.log captures the following exceptions:
2019-02-13 14:13:51,141, [AgentProtocolServer Core Thread #1], (AbstractAuthRequestHandler.java:192), trace.com.rsa.authmgr.internal.protocol.ace.AbstractAuthRequestHandler, DEBUG, am82p.vcloud.local,,,,Principal resolution failure. Processing aborted. com.rsa.authmgr.internal.admin.principalres.PrincipalResolutionException: Unable to Resolve Principal:Unable to resolve remote principal because multiple matching remote principals exist
at com.rsa.authmgr.internal.admin.principalres.impl.PrincipalResolutionImpl.a(PrincipalResolutionImpl.java:66)
at com.rsa.authmgr.internal.admin.principalres.impl.PrincipalResolutionImpl.b(PrincipalResolutionImpl.java:71)
at com.rsa.authmgr.internal.admin.principalres.impl.PrincipalResolutionImpl.resolveRemotePrincipal(PrincipalResolutionImpl.java:348)
at com.rsa.authmgr.internal.protocol.ace.AuthV4RequestHandler.resolveRemotePrincipal(AuthV4RequestHandler.java:734)
at com.rsa.authmgr.internal.protocol.ace.AuthV4RequestHandler.resolvePrincipal(AuthV4RequestHandler.java:659)
at com.rsa.authmgr.internal.protocol.ace.AuthV4RequestHandler.initializePrincipalDetail(AuthV4RequestHandler.java:498)
at com.rsa.authmgr.internal.protocol.ace.AuthV4RequestHandler.performProcessing(AuthV4RequestHandler.java:324)
at com.rsa.authmgr.internal.protocol.ace.AuthV4RequestHandler.defaultExecuteProcess(AuthV4RequestHandler.java:202)
at com.rsa.authmgr.internal.protocol.ace.AuthV4RequestHandler.executeProcessWithDefaultCache(AuthV4RequestHandler.java:177)
at com.rsa.authmgr.internal.protocol.ace.AuthV4RequestHandler.process(AuthV4RequestHandler.java:151)
at com.rsa.authmgr.internal.protocol.ace.AceProtocolHandler.process(AceProtocolHandler.java:105)
- In the Security Console, click Administration > Trusted Realms > Trusted Users > Manage Existing.
- Use the search fields to find the trusted user that you want to delete.
- From the search results, click the context arrow for the trusted user that you want to delete.
- From the context menu, click Delete.
- Click OK.
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