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Authentication failure to cDot controller connecting from powershell

hpadmana — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 04:55:48 GMT

Authentication is failing for my ‘domain\user1_us’ but it works for one teammate’s “domain\user2_us” account. Also 'admin' user is working fine. We were wondering because both of us have same permissions on NAS as well as on Active Directory.Accounts created using,

# security login create -vserver vservername -username domain\user1_us -application ssh -authmethod domain -role admin

# security login create -vserver vservername -username domain\user1_us -application ontapi -authmethod domain -role admin

Following 2 lines will be responsible.

$pwd = Get-Credential -credential "domain\user1_us”

Connect-NcController “clustername” -vserver “vservername” -Credential $pwd -ErrorAction silentlycontinue | Out-Null

Really appreciate the help.

Re: Authentication failure to cDot controller connecting from powershell

mbeattie — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 02:56:21 GMT

Hi,

No issues with your powershell code, have you check the secd.log file (/mroot/etc/log/mlog/secd.log) for authentication errors from the domain user in question? See this KB

https://kb.netapp.com/support/index?page=content&id=1012894&locale=en_US

You could try a "diag secd trace".

/matt

Re: Authentication failure to cDot controller connecting from powershell

ekashpureff — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 04:01:56 GMT

Hpadmana -

You may want to compare user1 and user2 with the 'security login show' command.

( https://library.netapp.com/ecmdocs/ECMP1511539/html/security/login/show.html )

I hope this response has been helpful to you.

At your service,

Eugene E. Kashpureff, Sr.
Independent NetApp Consultant http://www.linkedin.com/in/eugenekashpureff
Senior NetApp Instructor, IT Learning Solutions http://sg.itls.asia/netapp
(P.S. I appreciate 'kudos' on any helpful posts.)