Re: nod_session SessionMaxAge (Apache Users)

Thx for the quick reply ... and my apologies for the incomplete setup (copy-paste typo)

I do have in fact an authentication requirement via "Require valid-user"

(as a point proving that, when the first time I try to access the script I am redirected to the login page)

I think I know what is happening : whenever my session expires and I refresh the page the browser simply resubmits the form so it logs me in again :

So if I'm right, the question would be, how do I protect the site against that ?

On Sun, Jun 5, 2022 at 12:19 PM Eric Covener <covener@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

It looks to me like you don't actually have an authentication requirement, so when your session expires it doesn't trigger a redirect to your login form. Try protecting the cgi or some larger scope with e.g. 'require valid-user'

On Sun, Jun 5, 2022, 6:00 AM Thomas Fazekas <thomas.fazekas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dear all,

either I misunderstood how the SessionMaxAge setting is supposed to work or I made a fundamental mistake in my setup, but, in a nutshell, it seems that the users can access the form protected (form_auth) folder even after the session has expired.

I have the following related setup :

<Directory /opt/webroot/public>
Options None
AllowOverride None
Require all granted
</Directory>

<Directory /opt/webroot/private_form>
AuthFormProvider file
AuthUserFile "conf/passwd"
AuthType Form
AuthName FormProtected
AuthFormUsername fauser
AuthFormPassword fapass
Session On
SessionCookieName fasession path=/
SessionMaxAge 120

ErrorDocument 401 /webdoc/login.html
</Directory>

<IfModule alias_module>
Alias /webdoc /opt/webroot/public/doc
ScriptAlias /webscr /opt/webroot/private_form/scr
</IfModule>

(all this goes on via SSL, just in case that makes any difference)
Now, when the first time I point my browser to "https://localhost/webscr/testscript" I am correctly redirected to the login page and required to provide a username and pass.
The problem is that, after successfully logging in, even though I can see the session cookie expiration set to 2 mins, if I wait longer than that without closing my browser,
in case of a simple refresh of the page I'm being allowed back in without needing to re-authenticate.

The "https://localhost/webscr/testscript" it's just a simple shell script that returns all environment variables.

Now, even though I keep the browser open, if I refresh the page after the expiration period shouldn't I be forced to the login page again ? What am I missing ?

Thanks in advance,
Thomas