[rt-users] unprivileged users need to log in twice

[Kevin Falcone]

On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 04:49:14PM -0500, Kevin Falcone wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 12:26:53PM -0800, David Griffith wrote:
> > On Wed, 9 Dec 2009, Kevin Falcone wrote:
> > 
> > > On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 11:40:32AM -0800, David Griffith wrote:
> > >> Go to http://foobar.com/rt and you see the RT login screen.  Login as an
> > >> unprivileged user (Alice).  The username and password field will blank
> > >> out.  Type in Alice's username and password again, and you'll be logged in
> > >> as Alice.  That's the first part of the bug.
> > >
> > > What happens at http://foobar.com/rt/ vs /rt
> > > Also, what is your URL after the initial failed login?
> > 
> > Trailing slash makes no difference.  The URL after initial failed login is
> > http://foobar.com/rt/SelfService/
> > 
> > >> The second part is when you type in the username-password the second 
> > >> time.  If at that point you attempt to log in as a privileged user, 
> > >> you'll log in, but your permissions are that of an unprivileged user.
> > >
> > > This sounds like the initial login worked enough to get you redirected
> > > to /rt/SelfService/ which would certainly make it appear that you're
> > > an unprivileged user when you then log in as Bob (the privileged user)
> > 
> > I see.  Any ideas of what's going on?
> 
> Not without further digging, but at least we've explained the
> unprivileged rights issue.

I'd be interested to know if the following patch fixes this on debian
stable.  You should be able to apply it with

cd /usr/share/request-tracker3.6; patch < ErrHeadersOut.patch

and a restart of apache

-kevin
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