CROWD or JIRA users failed to login to Bamboo

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You have delegated Bamboo user management to either Crowd or JIRA. Due to misconfiguration, users are not authenticated. You have made amendments but still the authentication fails.

The atlassian-bamboo.log shows the following:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 2013-07-16 07:47:22,334 WARN [qtp31522607-200] [BambooElevatedSecurityGuard] Validating CAPTCHA response com.octo.captcha.service.CaptchaServiceException: Invalid ID, could not validate unexisting or already validated captcha at com.octo.captcha.service.AbstractCaptchaService.validateResponseForID(AbstractCaptchaService.java:146) at com.octo.captcha.service.AbstractManageableCaptchaService.validateResponseForID(AbstractManageableCaptchaService.java:367) at com.atlassian.bamboo.user.authentication.BambooElevatedSecurityGuard.performElevatedSecurityCheck(BambooElevatedSecurityGuard.java:56) at com.atlassian.seraph.filter.PasswordBasedLoginFilter.runAuthentication(PasswordBasedLoginFilter.java:111) at com.atlassian.seraph.filter.PasswordBasedLoginFilter.login(PasswordBasedLoginFilter.java:72) at com.atlassian.seraph.filter.BaseLoginFilter.doFilter(BaseLoginFilter.java:130) at com.atlassian.seraph.filter.BambooLoginFilter.doFilter(BambooLoginFilter.java:34) at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1331) at com.atlassian.plugin.servlet.filter.IteratingFilterChain.doFilter(IteratingFilterChain.java:46) at com.atlassian.plugin.servlet.filter.DelegatingPluginFilter$1.doFilter(DelegatingPluginFilter.java:66) at com.atlassian.oauth.serviceprovider.internal.servlet.OAuthFilter.doFilter(OAuthFilter.java:55) at com.atlassian.plugin.servlet.filter.DelegatingPluginFilter.doFilter(DelegatingPluginFilter.java:74) at com.atlassian.plugin.servlet.filter.IteratingFilterChain.doFilter(IteratingFilterChain.java:42) at com.atlassian.plugin.servlet.filter.DelegatingPluginFilter$1.doFilter(DelegatingPluginFilter.java:66)

Cause

Because you have tried several login attempts, the authentication attempt information might have been corrupted.

Resolution

  1. Stop Bamboo

  2. Run this SQL query against your Bamboo database, start Bamboo again, clear your browser cache and try to log in again:

    1 DELETE FROM AUTH_ATTEMPT_INFO;
Updated on April 8, 2025

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