dotCMS / dotCMS/core

Improve debug on Authentication

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OKR : Customer Support Team : Maintenance Type : Task
Dominant language
Java
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Description

Task

We ran into a situation where the customer was sending an authentication header and expected the content to load.
However, the user had a different password from the one being sent in the BaseAuth headers.
So it has been requested that we imporve our logs to be able to identify such type of situations if we enable logs

Proposed Objective

Customer Support

Proposed Priority

Priority 3 - Average

Acceptance Criteria

if we enable debug mode, we should be able to identify Login failure

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Research direction

Start by locating the Java authentication flow, BaseAuth header handling, and existing debug logging. Determine where failed login attempts are recorded and review the available tests or logging checks; done means debug mode clearly identifies an authentication failure without exposing credentials.

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Assessment

Tech stack
java
Domain
authentication, backend, security
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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