user logged in timeout?

bencollinz · Post by **bencollinz** » Mon Jun 01, 2015 5:59 pm

In ZM 1.25, I could keep my 'stream' (displays certain cameras on living room wall) account logged in for days, if not weeks at a time. Now in 1.28.1, the monitor feeds will freeze (not a set amount of time, random), I hit refresh and I have to log in again with guest account, whereas before I could just hit refresh.

I have not tried with admin account, yet.

Are there any settings I can look into?

Thank you

Ben

bencollinz · Post by **bencollinz** » Sun Jun 07, 2015 6:11 pm

I tried with admin account as well, no difference.

bencollinz · Post by **bencollinz** » Mon Jun 08, 2015 2:16 pm

I disabled user authentication and same result.

bencollinz · Post by **bencollinz** » Thu Jun 11, 2015 9:43 pm

well, the only way I could get around this was to turn off authentication and install an add on for firefox to autoreload every 15 minutes.
not ideal, however.

Post by **asker** » Thu Jun 11, 2015 11:10 pm

I've been trying to find out the same too - haven't figured out (yet) which part of the code is doing this. There are no cookies that control this for sure. You said it was random -- do you know an approximate time period?

Also, can you check something for me -- please go to the directory where zone minder is installed and let me know if you have a file called core.php somewhere there

thx

bencollinz · Post by **bencollinz** » Fri Jun 12, 2015 1:44 am

asker wrote: Also, can you check something for me -- please go to the directory where zone minder is installed and let me know if you have a file called core.php somewhere there

thx

There is no core.php ANYWHERE including /usr/share/zoneminder (where zm looks to be installed)

Post by **asker** » Fri Jun 12, 2015 12:17 pm

Okay, thanks that at least eliminates one area of research.
I'll keep digging -- I'm probably missing something staring right at me. I'll let you know if I find something.

Based on what I have seen so far, there are a few candidates:

a) ZM's authentication logic is resetting the authentication session after some time
b) PHP has a session timeout
c) CakePHP has a session timeout (used for APIs)

You have already eliminated c) -- no core.php
As far as b goes, you said this was never an issue with 1.25, so I doubt it

The probable candidate therefore is a), but I can't (Yet) find why this is happening. I don't see any session cookies that expire in a few minutes or hours. I also don't see any logic that is checking for timeout anywhere or re-computing hash based on time

Post by **iconnor** » Fri Jun 12, 2015 1:24 pm

I suspect php session timeout...

sideband · Post by **sideband** » Fri Mar 05, 2021 4:08 pm

This behavior is back.. Chrome on linux and chromebook with ZM on Ubuntu Server 20.04

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