privileges not working after resetting admin access

Sonatype Nexus Repository
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Nexus OSS 3.12.0-01

I had accidentally deleted the admin role mapped to AD, got the LDAP authentication working again as per this thread.

Following is the process I am using:

  1. There is a repository named fuma-components which should be accessed only by a couple of users
  2. I created a Nexus role viz. admin-fuma-components which has privileges like nx-blobstores-read, nx-repository-admin-maven2-fuma-components-*, nx-repository-view-maven2-fuma-components-browse etc.
  3. Assigned this role to AD users who need access to the repository

This approach worked fine for months till I faced the admin lock-out issue yesterday and got it working. Now the privileges and roles don’t work at all:

  1. I gave one of the users the privilege of ‘nx-admin’, still he can neither see any repository or upload artifacts to those repos.
  2. even if I create duplicate roles for the same repos. and assign those the users, they still cannot see or access the repositories. I cannot see any exceptions in the nexus.log either.
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What steps did you take? If you ran “delete from realm” it would have removed the LDAP security realm. You’ll need to go to “security/realms” in the admin UI and add the LDAP security realm back into the list of configured realms.