[ https://issues.jboss.org/browse/WFLY-8194?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.... ] Ondrej Lukas updated WFLY-8194: ------------------------------- Steps to Reproduce: 1) Add user - add following line to {{standalone/configuration/mgmt-users.properties}} {code} user1=pass@123 {code} 2) Configure application server: {code} /subsystem=elytron/sasl-authentication-factory=elytronSaslAuthnFactory:add(security-domain=ManagementDomain,sasl-server-factory=global,mechanism-configurations=[{mechanism-name=PLAIN}]) /subsystem=elytron/properties-realm=ManagementRealm:write-attribute(name=users-properties.plain-text,value=true) {code} 3) Change http-interface to following: {code} <http-interface http-authentication-factory="management-http-authentication"> <http-upgrade enabled="true" sasl-authentication-factory="elytronSaslAuthnFactory"/> <socket-binding http="management-http"/> </http-interface> {code} 4) try to authenticate to jboss CLI: {code} ./jboss-cli.sh -c -u=user1 -p=pass@123 --no-local-auth Failed to connect to the controller: The controller is not available at localhost:9990: java.net.ConnectException: WFLYPRT0053: Could not connect to remote+http://localhost:9990. The connection failed: WFLYPRT0053: Could not connect to remote+http://localhost:9990. The connection failed: JBREM000202: Abrupt close on Remoting connection 25b770fb to localhost/127.0.0.1:9990 of endpoint "cli-client" <5a992706> {code} was: These steps work correctly with EAP 7.1.0.DR11, but fail with EAP 7.1.0.DR12: 1) Add user - add following line to {{standalone/configuration/mgmt-users.properties}} {code} user1=pass@123 {code} 2) Configure application server: {code} /subsystem=elytron/sasl-authentication-factory=elytronSaslAuthnFactory:add(security-domain=ManagementDomain,sasl-server-factory=global,mechanism-configurations=[{mechanism-name=PLAIN}]) /subsystem=elytron/properties-realm=ManagementRealm:write-attribute(name=users-properties.plain-text,value=true) {code} 3) Change http-interface to following: {code} <http-interface http-authentication-factory="management-http-authentication"> <http-upgrade enabled="true" sasl-authentication-factory="elytronSaslAuthnFactory"/> <socket-binding http="management-http"/> </http-interface> {code} 4) try to authenticate to jboss CLI: {code} ./jboss-cli.sh -c -u=user1 -p=pass@123 --no-local-auth Failed to connect to the controller: The controller is not available at localhost:9990: java.net.ConnectException: WFLYPRT0053: Could not connect to remote+http://localhost:9990. The connection failed: WFLYPRT0053: Could not connect to remote+http://localhost:9990. The connection failed: JBREM000202: Abrupt close on Remoting connection 25b770fb to localhost/127.0.0.1:9990 of endpoint "cli-client" <5a992706> {code} -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.2.3#72005)