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authorMarkus Koller <markus-koller@gmx.ch>2016-08-30 13:21:33 +0200
committerRémy Coutable <remy@rymai.me>2016-09-28 07:44:58 +0200
commit68364fe2f03a543c4ad89553f50b6fa30d143331 (patch)
tree353d0d580a8ece951f0ba73c0015fb1416bff2e5 /doc/administration
parent3b206ccb8393d8f2c5ad227874d9a60beb054782 (diff)
downloadgitlab-ce-68364fe2f03a543c4ad89553f50b6fa30d143331.tar.gz
Log LDAP lookup errors and don't swallow unrelated exceptions
Signed-off-by: Roger Meier <r.meier@siemens.com>
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@@ -275,3 +275,9 @@ If you are getting 'Connection Refused' errors when trying to connect to the
LDAP server please double-check the LDAP `port` and `method` settings used by
GitLab. Common combinations are `method: 'plain'` and `port: 389`, OR
`method: 'ssl'` and `port: 636`.
+
+### Login with valid credentials rejected
+
+If there is an unexpected error while authenticating the user with the LDAP
+backend, the login is rejected and details about the error are logged to
+`production.log`.