I finally got it to happen to me, so the network guys aren't crazy. In my case I logged in, did a search pressed enter (rather than clicking on the result) and it reloaded the page. When I went back up to the search box to search again, the search box had a pop up that said, "session expired, please log in again!". Does that mean the search box thought I wasn't authenticated or would it be related to a cookie issue?
Thanks, Mike
From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Teixeira, Mike Sent: Friday, February 14, 2014 10:26 AM To: Observium Network Observation System (observium@observium.org) Subject: [Observium] CentOS authentication timeout
Hello,
I started to have an intermittent issue with users being forced to login when they browse the webpage. I have the timeout settings defined in php.ini:
session.use_cookies = 1 session.use_only_cookies = 1 session.cookie_lifetime = 259200 session.cookie_path = / session.cookie_domain = session.cookie_httponly =
Socket timeouts are set to the following in php.ini: default_socket_timeout = 259200
I did have a lifetime cookie set to 0 and socket_timeout to 14400. Users that had the issue had a cookie. My authentication mechanism is AD-LDAP. Any other advice on where to look to find out why users are being forced to login intermittently? I have had a hard time tracking this issue down since it is so intermittent.
Thanks, Mike