Article - CS316984

Login to ThingWorx or ThingWorx Navigate with SSO configuration fails with "The system is currently encountering an authentication configuration error"

Modified: 12-Jul-2024   


Applies To

  • Windchill Navigate (formerly ThingWorx Navigate) 1.5.0 to 8.5.3
  • ThingWorx Platform 8.2 to 9.3
  • PingFederate

Description

  • SSO Authentication fails with error in the browser:
The system is currently encountering an authentication configuration error.
​​​​Close the browser and try to login again. If the problem persists, contact your system administrator
  • Errors in ThingworxStorage/logs/SecurityLog.log:
[L: ERROR] [O: S.c.t.s.a.AuthenticatorExceptionHandler] [I: ] [U: ] [S: ] [T: https-jsse-nio-8150-exec-4] [ Error validating SAML message ][ Response doesn't have any valid assertion which would pass subject validation ][ Signature is not trusted or invalid ]
[O: S.c.t.s.a.AuthenticatorExceptionHandler] [I: ] [U: ] [S: ] [T: https-jsse-nio-443-exec-9] [ Error validating SAML message ][ Response has invalid status code urn:oasis:names:tc:SAML:2.0:status:Requester, status message is Unknown AssertionConsumerServiceURL https://<domain-name>/Thingworx/saml/SSO ]
[L: WARN] [O: S.c.t.s.ApplicationContext] [I: ] [U: ] [S: ] [T: https-jsse-nio-443-exec-9] ApplicationContext.sessionDestroyed(HttpSessionEvent) failed. [ java.lang.NullPointerException: userName was null ][ userName was null ]
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