I found a solution in another post. <bean id="proxyBasicProcessingFilter" class="com.jaspersoft.jasperserver.api.security.externalAuth.ExternalAuthBasicProcessingFilter" parent="basicProcessingFilter"> <constructor-arg index="0" ref="ldapAuthenticationManager"/> <property name="externalDataSynchronizer" ref="externalDataSynchronizer"/> </bean> Delete the line: <property name="authenticationManager" ref="ldapAuthenticationManager"/> That worked for me. on version 7.5.0