RSA Authentication Agent for Microsoft Windows: Domain users are not challenged when "Domain Users" group is nested in local "Users" group
Originally Published: 2018-07-05
Article Number
Applies To
RSA Product/Service Type: Authentication Agent for Windows
RSA Version/Condition: 7.2.1.41 or later, 7.3, 7.3.1, 7.3.2, 7.3.3
Issue
2018-06-28 10:40:23.796 The Challenge Group sAMAccountName policy is .\Users
2018-06-28 10:40:23.796 There is no Enable Challenge policy or preference configured. DoNotEnableChallenge is being used as the programmatic default.
2018-06-28 10:40:23.796 Preference value for "FailOpen" doesn't exist.
2018-06-28 10:40:23.796 There is no Fail Open policy or preference configured. DoNotLocallyCacheUserChallengeType is being used as the programmatic default.
2018-06-28 10:40:23.796 groupDomainORworkstationName = workstation1, groupName = Users
2018-06-28 10:40:23.796 userDomainORworkstationName = domainA, userName = user123, fullGroupName = .\Users
2018-06-28 10:40:26.063 wsUserADsNTPath = WinNT://domainA/user123
2018-06-28 10:40:26.063 Recursively check group name: WinNT://workstation1/Users
2018-06-28 10:40:26.063 CheckDomainUserInLocalGroup] for user: WinNT://domainA/user123
2018-06-28 10:40:26.063 [ADSIHelper::StringSID] Domain name: domainA
2018-06-28 10:40:26.063 The user's compared String SID is WinNT://S-1-5-21-1687131260-2929665233-840903075-2196
2018-06-28 10:40:26.063 Fetched 0x4 group members, now looping through them.
2018-06-28 10:40:26.063 Nested group found: WinNT://NT AUTHORITY/INTERACTIVE
2018-06-28 10:40:26.063 wsGroupNTPath = WinNT://NT AUTHORITY/INTERACTIVE, gpDomainORworkstationName = , gpName =
2018-06-28 10:40:26.063 [ADSIHelper::ParseGroupName] fullGroupPath = NT AUTHORITY/INTERACTIVE
2018-06-28 10:40:26.063 groupDomainORworkstationName = NT AUTHORITY, groupName = INTERACTIVE
2018-06-28 10:40:26.063 The group is assumed to be a domain group
2018-06-28 10:40:26.063 Got interface to nested domain group, calling isUserMemberOfGroup() to check the group.
2018-06-28 10:40:26.220 Failed to set NT4 Name = NT AUTHORITY\INTERACTIVE
2018-06-28 10:40:26.220 Caught HRESULT:Cause
Resolution
Call RSA Technical Support to obtain this hotfix.
Workaround
Challenge: All users except
Group: .\Administrators
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