Re: [Phpgroupware-users] User Login Limit

[Dave Hall]

On Fri, 2005-12-16 at 16:53 -0200, Mauricio wrote:
> Thanks to clarify it!
> 
> Just one more thing...
> 
> Some users tried to access at the same time on different machines and 
> reported problems. On error log there is:
> 
> IP '*.*.*.119' doesn't match IP '*.*.*.181' in session table
> 
> If I use php sessions istead of db sessions this problem will be solved?
> 

No, go into admin->admin->Site Configuration->Security->Verify IP = no

This is the only work around for transparent proxy clusters.

Cheers

Dave

> Best Regards,
> Mauricio.
> 
> Chris Weiss wrote:
> > it's possible to do, but there's some problems
> > 
> > 1) users tend not to logout but just close the window
> > 2) sessions expire before user logs out
> > 
> > the only way to work around #2 is to store the php session in the
> > database and check to see if the session is still valid before logging
> > them on.  but with #1, this work around won't work as the session on
> > the server is still valid until it expires, even though the browser
> > was closed and the client no longer has the session ID, though i guess
> > since the db has teh sessid we could force-expire the session to close
> > at the users request, but now you need a way for the user to tell what
> > computer is using what session so they can pick which to close in the
> > case of being allowed a couple logins.
> > 
> > 
> > On 12/13/05, Mauricio <address@hidden> wrote:
> > 
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>there are some limitation (max number of logins) to the authentication
> >>of the same user on different machines simultaneously to a phpgw
> >>installation?
> >>
> >>There are some way to chance this behavior?
> >>
> >>
> >>Regards,
> >>
> >>Maurício.
> >>