Last night I experienced a strange authentication problem
with my openfire server. We are using
all Spark clients (2.5.3) and openfire (3.3.1) and ldap authentication. When someone mentioned the problem to me I
noticed my contact list showed users still logged in that weren’t even in the
office to be connected… I then logged
out of spark and tried to log back in and authentication failed, tried again
and same thing. Went to the admin
console and it wouldn’t let me in either. I
tried my client again and it logged me in but didn’t update my contact
list. Logged out and back in and
couldn’t log in again. I checked the
openfire logs using tail to see the last bits and there wasn’t anything
interesting, its like it just stopped logging all together, although the server
was still running. My ldap (Active
Directory) server was running just fine and reported no errors, I was able to
authenticate against that ldap server outside of openfire with no problems.
TIA for any help.