[horde] Weird intermittent login failure

[Mark Hennessy]

Out of curiosity, what do you use for session management?

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 Mark Hennessy

> -----Original Message-----
> From: -ray [mailto:ray at ops.selu.edu] 
> Sent: Monday, September 18, 2006 3:17 PM
> To: horde at lists.horde.org; Mark Hennessy
> Subject: Re: [horde] Weird intermittent login failure
> 
> 
> 
> 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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