[KNOX-718] KnoxSSO login page doesn't display any feedback on error

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.4.0
• Component/s: KnoxSSO
• Assignee: Kevin Risden
• Reporter: Krishna Pandey
• Created: 21/Jun/16 18:37
• Updated: 10/Jan/20 16:28
• Resolved: 10/Jan/20 16:28

Description

User does not get any warning for rejection due to whitelist when logging through KnoxSSO form based authentication. Refer logs below from gateway.log

"2016-06-21 18:26:02,074 WARN service.knoxsso (WebSSOResource.java:init(89)) - The SSO cookie SecureOnly flag is set to FALSE and is therefore insecure.
 2016-06-21 18:26:02,076 INFO service.knoxsso (WebSSOResource.java:getCookieValue(265)) - Unable to find cookie with name: original-url
 2016-06-21 18:26:02,077 ERROR service.knoxsso (WebSSOResource.java:getAuthenticationToken(159)) - The original URL: http://<ranger_host>:6080/ for redirecting back after authentication is not valid according to the configured whitelist: ^https?:\/\/(localhost|127\.0\.0\.1|0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1|::1):[0-9].*$. See documentation for KnoxSSO Whitelisting."

Here is an example of a webhdfs dispatch failing since WebHDFS is down:

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #234