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Login broken [update: should be fixed now]
« on: September 13, 2017, 05:27:33 AM »
This is the user formerly known as sidd on this forum. Login is broken, have not been able to login for a few days, error message tells me that session has timed out, as logicmanpatrick and other pointed out on the typepad blog.

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« Last Edit: September 21, 2017, 03:02:05 AM by DungeonMaster »

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Re: login broken
« Reply #1 on: September 13, 2017, 07:06:44 AM »
Hi sidd,

I have notified DungeonMaster. I'm sure he'll look into it asap. Sorry for the inconvenience.

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Re: login broken
« Reply #2 on: September 13, 2017, 07:14:47 AM »
I have the same thing - at least when I try to log in from the main page.

Clicking through to the actual login page first, that works though.

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Re: login broken
« Reply #3 on: September 13, 2017, 12:24:58 PM »
I have the same thing - at least when I try to log in from the main page.

Clicking through to the actual login page first, that works though.

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

I would never have thought of that.  I think my geek cred just went down: but yours just went up.
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Re: login broken
« Reply #4 on: September 13, 2017, 05:14:09 PM »
Similar.  The top left login dnw (does not work).  However the lower middle login does work.  No problems with logout.  No other glitches or major bugs noted.

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Re: login broken
« Reply #5 on: September 13, 2017, 05:14:58 PM »
thanks, confirm that login throught the login page works, but not from main page.

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Re: login broken
« Reply #6 on: September 13, 2017, 08:28:45 PM »
As above, the login page works, the main login does not...

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Re: login broken
« Reply #7 on: September 13, 2017, 11:07:42 PM »
confirm that login boxes on front page is still broken, and login link works. Neven, would you remove the "temp1" account i created earler, now that i am logging in again as sidd ? thanx

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Re: login broken
« Reply #8 on: September 13, 2017, 11:12:39 PM »
remove the "temp1" account
Won't that also kill this thread?

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Re: login broken
« Reply #9 on: September 13, 2017, 11:20:43 PM »
Good question, brigantine!  ;D

I might try that tomorrow, after saving all the comments here. Exciting!  ;)
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Re: login broken
« Reply #10 on: September 14, 2017, 12:22:22 AM »
Looks like the problem is with the login boxes at the top. If you go to the login link from the main page, the boxes on top of the resulting page also deny login with the timeout error. One needs to use the boxes lower down in the login page for it to work. Mebbe broken auto added header code?

i would look deeper but i have six hundred miles of road ahead of me.

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Re: login broken
« Reply #11 on: September 14, 2017, 01:57:46 AM »
Looks like the problem is with the login boxes at the top. If you go to the login link from the main page, the boxes on top of the resulting page also deny login with the timeout error. One needs to use the boxes lower down in the login page for it to work. Mebbe broken auto added header code?

i would look deeper but i have six hundred miles of road ahead of me.

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123456789987654321 fix the login bug.

The ASIF attracts brilliant minds.  This topic keeps bouncing to the top of recent comments.  Having two login options is not needed.  Why not just delete one.

AAAAGH ! NO! Not that one, the other one!   ;D
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Login broken
« Reply #12 on: September 14, 2017, 03:49:34 PM »
I could delete sidd's temporary account (temp1) without killing the thread. So I did.
« Last Edit: September 14, 2017, 03:59:43 PM by Neven »
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Re: Login broken
« Reply #13 on: September 15, 2017, 08:30:26 AM »
Thanks for deleting that account.

I have had a bit more time to look at the issue, and i see no difference between the broken login attempt and the working one except that a field is defined as

form id="guest_form" in the broken case, but form id="frmLogin" in the working one. All else incuding the form action, the field names and the hash passed seem the same. I dunno if this helps debug but perhaps it might.

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Re: Login broken
« Reply #14 on: September 15, 2017, 09:02:53 AM »
One last thought is that the error message states that the session has expired. Might the broken form with form id="guest_form"  invoke a time comparison that fails, yet one that succeeds when form id ="frmLogin" ?

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Re: Login broken
« Reply #15 on: September 16, 2017, 03:28:16 PM »
Hunh.  Thought it was just me...  :o

A couple weeks ago, one morning I got a (405?) error trying to access the forum (server not found, or something).

Sept. 8, I kept getting "Forbidden - You don't have permission to access / on this server".

And since last night, the "your session timed out while posting" message.

Got in now using the lower login screen, as others have described.  At least persistence pays off!
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Re: Login broken
« Reply #16 on: September 16, 2017, 09:51:49 PM »
Hunh.  Thought it was just me...  :o

A couple weeks ago, one morning I got a (405?) error trying to access the forum (server not found, or something).

Sept. 8, I kept getting "Forbidden - You don't have permission to access / on this server".

And since last night, the "your session timed out while posting" message.

Got in now using the lower login screen, as others have described.  At least persistence pays off!

Sigmetnow:  I tried to join in with those who were thanking you for your tremendous input here, but my comment got buried in an avalanche of messages.  So:thank you!

As you said: persistence pays off.  ;D
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Re: Login broken
« Reply #17 on: September 16, 2017, 10:19:54 PM »
logicmanPatrick,

Thanks so much.  I enjoy sharing.
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Re: Login broken
« Reply #18 on: September 17, 2017, 12:45:10 AM »
Neven, would you post a link to this thread somewhere prominent on your blog and the fron page of this forum ? I notice a bunch of regulars have not posted in some time.

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Re: Login broken
« Reply #19 on: September 17, 2017, 01:18:34 AM »
Neven, would you post a link to this thread somewhere prominent on your blog and the fron page of this forum ? I notice a bunch of regulars have not posted in some time.

sidd

Perhaps make this thread sticky until the bug is sorted?
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Re: Login broken
« Reply #20 on: September 17, 2017, 03:39:02 AM »
And/or, we keep posting items in this thread often enough to keep it in the Recent Posts lists.  That's how I found it!
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Re: Login broken
« Reply #21 on: September 17, 2017, 08:11:48 AM »
I've set the topic sticky and put an addendum on top of the latest ASIB blog post. I'll be travelling for the next two-three days, but once I'm back home, I'll ask DungeonMaster again about this.

Thanks again for finding the workaround and possible causes.
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Re: ***LOGIN IS BROKEN - But There is a Workaround
« Reply #22 on: September 17, 2017, 03:09:02 PM »
Trying to make a more obnoxious title in the Recent Posts list, to catch people's attention.

The story so far: the main logon screen isn't working -- but if you use the secondary one (the one you get when you have an invalid userid or password;  or the other Login screen), they will work OK.

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

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Re: ***LOGIN IS BROKEN - But There is a Workaround
« Reply #23 on: September 17, 2017, 09:51:28 PM »
Bumpitty !

Well done Sigmetnow.   8)
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Re: *** LOGIN IS BROKEN - But There is a Workaround
« Reply #24 on: September 18, 2017, 12:59:01 AM »
The story (problem) continues.
 ;) :) ;D 
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Re: Login broken
« Reply #25 on: September 18, 2017, 02:39:59 AM »
Is it possible for neven to send email to posters who have been inactive recently ?

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Re: *** LOGIN IS BROKEN - But There is a Workaround
« Reply #26 on: September 18, 2017, 03:08:20 PM »
Is it possible for neven to send email to posters who have been inactive recently ?

sidd

Good morning.

Neven is traveling for a few days.  So we're on our own until Dungeonmaster waves his magic wand.

In the meantime... PARTY!!! ;D
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Re: *** LOGIN IS BROKEN - But There is a Workaround
« Reply #27 on: September 18, 2017, 06:12:11 PM »
See above....  :)
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Re: *** LOGIN IS BROKEN - But There is a Workaround
« Reply #28 on: September 18, 2017, 07:47:17 PM »
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Re: *** LOGIN IS BROKEN - But There is a Workaround
« Reply #29 on: September 19, 2017, 02:38:59 PM »
In case you've just joined us....
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Re: *** LOGIN IS BROKEN - But There is a Workaround
« Reply #30 on: September 19, 2017, 10:02:50 PM »
And again.  :)
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Re: Login broken
« Reply #31 on: September 20, 2017, 06:17:39 AM »
o dear it seems to have slipped off the receent posts list

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Re: *** LOGIN IS BROKEN - But There is a Workaround
« Reply #32 on: September 20, 2017, 06:22:38 PM »
o dear it seems to have slipped off the receent posts list

Intoning magic spell to solve that right now...
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Re: Login broken
« Reply #33 on: September 20, 2017, 08:42:47 PM »
Okay, I'm back (behave, gentlemen), and I've asked DungeonMaster to look at the issue.
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Re: Login broken
« Reply #34 on: September 21, 2017, 03:00:02 AM »
Ouch sorry guys, I hadn't realized that it was that bad !

The latest update introduced a new security mechanism which was not applied in the slightly modified themes we use here. As a result it went broke...

I think it is fixed now - please tell me if not yet...

For reference: https://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=553884.msg3925847#msg3925847

And by the way I switched the whole forum to https only mode (latest update allows this), I hope it breaks nothing!
This forum helps me to feel less uncomfortable about "doing something" about the melting Arctic and the warming world.

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Re: Login broken [update: should be fixed now]
« Reply #35 on: September 21, 2017, 03:06:52 AM »
Thanks a bunch, looks like it is fixed. I just logged in with the login fields at the top on main page.

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Re: Login broken [update: should be fixed now]
« Reply #36 on: September 21, 2017, 04:12:36 AM »
Thanks a bunch, looks like it is fixed. I just logged in with the login fields at the top on main page.

sidd

Ditto.  Thanks, DM.
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Re: Login broken [update: should be fixed now]
« Reply #37 on: September 21, 2017, 06:48:42 PM »
Works now, well done!

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Re: Login broken [update: should be fixed now]
« Reply #38 on: June 03, 2023, 08:02:46 AM »
Not login per se but a problem with the forum's certificate.

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NET::ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID

This causes some misbehaviors, though posting is still possible (as evident by this very post).

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Re: Login broken [update: should be fixed now]
« Reply #39 on: September 23, 2023, 12:22:08 AM »
Another non-login but weird new problem, I click on an unread thread, read it, but it still shows as unread. The "New" icon still appears and takes me to the same post I have already read.

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Re: Login broken [update: should be fixed now]
« Reply #40 on: September 23, 2023, 12:35:31 AM »
And now appears to be fixed.

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Re: Login broken [update: should be fixed now]
« Reply #41 on: September 23, 2023, 01:13:15 AM »
And now appears to be fixed.

I had the same problem (so it wasn't just you).
Before I came here I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture I am still confused. But on a higher level.