[Freeipa-devel] logging in as different users?

Karl MacMillan kmacmill at redhat.com
Fri Nov 9 15:33:17 UTC 2007


On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 09:47 -0500, Rob Crittenden wrote:
> David O'Brien wrote:
> > More information:
> > 
> > I ssh'd to the server, ran kinit admin and browsed to the server using a
> > different Firefox profile. Got logged in as admin
> > 
> > A little while later (20mins) I closed the browser on the server itself,
> > reopened and connected again, and now it says logged in as admin.
> > 
> > So, I'm actually logged in to the IPA server as admin in two different
> > locations. Does this open up the potential for collisions or is it a
> > case of "First in is the winner"? What notification is there likely to
> > be?  I haven't tried anything yet...
> 
> It's fine and perfectly valid. With simultaneous record updates the last 
> one will win.
> 

Maybe I misread things, but it sounds a bit like firefox was keeping
tickets in memory allowing a user to auth after tickets were destroyed.
Or did I misread that?

Karl




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