[horde] Weird intermittent login failure

[-ray]

Mark,

I have seen the exact same problem, and also unable to pin it down since
it is so intermittent.

Horde is using LDAP authentication for us, with imp using imap auth
obviously (imap server hits the same ldap servers).  Originally i thought
it may be an ldap issue, so i was going to switch Horde to let imp do the
authentication to get LDAP out of the picture (at least as far as horde).
Well from reading your post, apparently that isn't going to work haha.

This is on horde 3.0.5/imp 4.0.3 but we're about to move to horde
3.1.2/imp 4.1.2.

Any one else seen this problem before?

ray



On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, Mark Hennessy wrote:

> Hi, I have a horde (3.1.3) setup with IMP (4.1.3) and a couple of other horde
> apps, and I'm seeing a weird problem.
> The horde is authenticating against a Courier IMAP setup running under
> cPanel.
>
> I open the browser and connect to the site running horde.  I log in with the
> proper username and password.  Sometimes the problem shows like this:
>
> I see the horde frame populate to the left and the "last login" bubble, but I
> get a login prompt again.  I log in one more time at that prompt, and the
> problem doesn't repeat.
>
> Other times, it shows like this:
> I log in, and I get to the inbox with the horde frame to the left, and click
> on "New Message" or to view another folder, and I get a login prompt again.
> I log in one more time at that prompt, and the problem doesn't repeat.
>
> The problem only seems to happen the first time opening up the web browser
> and logging in.  If the browser stays open after the second login the problem
> doesn't happen again.  In the logs, when the login fails, I see IMAP login
> failures in those instances.  Unfortunately, coincidence being what it is,
> I'm having a hard time pinning down the origin of the problem.
> I enabled PEAR_LOG_DEBUG, but I don't see any failures beyond the IMAP login
> failures in the horde log.
>
> More info:
> horde 3.1.3 running with MySQL session management enabled, authentication
> using IMAP through horde directly (not transferred to IMP for authentication)
>
> Any advice on what to look at next would be greatly appreciated.
> Thanks!
>
> --
> Mark Hennessy
>

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Ray DeJean  				       	 http://www.r-a-y.org
Systems Engineer                    Southeastern Louisiana University
IBM Certified Specialist  	      AIX Administration, AIX Support
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