Shibboleth library shutting down several times per day

David Gersic dgersic at niu.edu
Mon Nov 11 12:35:33 EST 2013


>>> On 11/11/2013 at 11:26 AM, "Cantor, Scott" <cantor.2 at osu.edu> wrote: 
> On 11/11/13, 9:23 AM, "MikeWho" <who at me.com> wrote:
>>
>>Most of our testers are in one office (and thus their traffic comes from
>>one
>>external IP address) whereas a few external testers have different IP
>>addresses. If both use the same login credentials, would one or both have
>>their session invalidated? (checkAddress is set to true). I've just seen a
>>few address mismatch log entries.
> 
> I'm sure that's the reason, but they won't interfere with each other, it's
> about the session, not the user.
> 
> If the routing to the IdP and SP differs, then you can't generally keep
> checkAddress on.
> 
> If the addresses change mid-session, then you have a real problem and have
> to decide whether to make the cookie security truly awful and turn off
> consistentAddress, or get people to fix their network.

How does this interact with a wireless connection that roams between multiple access points and may actually change the workstation IP address?






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