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diff --git a/doc/bugs/cannot_login.mdwn b/doc/bugs/cannot_login.mdwn index a4f129500..cd13ba313 100644 --- a/doc/bugs/cannot_login.mdwn +++ b/doc/bugs/cannot_login.mdwn @@ -38,3 +38,23 @@ Thanks. --[[anarcat]] Update: now I can't login to the ikiwiki.info site anymore, getting the same errors as on the git-annex site. + +> This seems to be a concacentation of multiple unrelated problems with +> different stuff, which is not a good bug report technique. Then to add to +> the fun, you filed the same bug on branchable too. Sigh! +> +> The `time_bad_sig` problem with the perl openid library is a problem I am +> aware of but it's not clear if the problem is clock skew, or a protocol +> problem. At least one user to report it seemed to get it due to a http +> proxy. I'm pretty sure it could also happen if multiple openid logins +> were attempted at the same time (the `consumer_secret` which is stored +> server-side is used). The problem is not specific to ikiwiki. +> +> Ikiwiki says "login failed, perhaps you need to turn on cookies?" when +> the user successfully logged in, but their cookie does not indicate why +> they were logging in to begin with, so ikiwiki does not know what action +> to continue to. One way to get this when cookies are enabled is to +> re-post a login form after already using it, by eg using the back button +> to go back to a previous login form and try to reuse it. +> +> --[[Joey]] |