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Username with email address containing @ cannot login due to URL encoding of username
Article ID: 133155
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Products
CA Advanced Authentication - Strong Authentication (AuthMinder / WebFort)
CA Strong Authentication
CA Risk Authentication
CA Advanced Authentication
Issue/Introduction
At 9.0.02 Login failure is encountered in a system that is Siteminder integrated with Advanced Authentication.
Cause
In version 9.0.02, the "@" in the username is url encoded by AA and passed to siteminder. This results in login failure as siteminder rejects the user login. The issue was introduced in version 9.0.02.
Environment
Release : 9.0.02
Component : AuthMinder(Arcot WebFort) integrated with Siteminder
Resolution
Removed URL encoding on the login username. A hot fix fort his version 9.0.02 issue exists - patch identified by CA-Adapter-9.0.2-DE397648_DE396284_DE404581_DE398607-Hotfix.zip exists and can be obtained via Broadcom Support.
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