Bug 332207 – www-client/firefox-3.6.8: wrong phpmyadmin authentication handling

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED INVALID

[Description Toralf Förster 2010-08-11 09:43:12 UTC]

Managing my MYSQL installation with dev-db/phpmyadmin-2.11.10 I observed today that if I first try to login with a wrong user name (non existing) and after that using another (correct) user name + password - firefox-3.6.8 complaints about wrong authentication and presents the first (wrong) username.

Restarting the browser (firefox) helped to login with the second (correct username + password pair). Konqueror-4.4.5 doesn't have such a problem.


Reproducible: Always




tfoerste@n22 ~ $ emerge --info
Portage 2.1.8.3 (default/linux/x86/10.0/desktop/kde, gcc-4.4.3, glibc-2.11.2-r0, 2.6.35.1 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: Linux-2.6.35.1-i686-Intel-R-_Core-TM-2_Duo_CPU_P8600_@_2.40GHz-with-gentoo-1.12.13
Timestamp of tree: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 06:45:01 +0000
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
app-shells/bash:     4.0_p37
dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11
dev-lang/python:     2.6.5-r3, 3.1.2-r4
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r7
dev-util/cmake:      2.8.1-r2
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.13
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.6-r2
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.65
sys-devel/automake:  1.8.5-r4, 1.9.6-r3, 1.10.3, 1.11.1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.20.1-r1
sys-devel/gcc:       4.4.3-r2
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1
sys-devel/libtool:   2.2.6b
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.30-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
ACCEPT_LICENSE="*"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="assume-digests ccache distlocks fixpackages news parallel-fetch protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.mneisen.org/ http://mirror.opteamax.de/gentoo/ http://gentoo.mirror.dkm.cz/pub/gentoo/ http://gentoo.wheel.sk/ http://91.121.125.139/gentoo-distfiles/ http://91.121.124.139/gentoo-distfiles/"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed"
LINGUAS="en en_GB"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://linux.rz.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/gentoo-portage"
USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa apache2 berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdda cddb cdio cdr clamav cli consolekit cracklib crypt css cups cxx dbus dri dts dvb dvd dvdr emboss encode exif fam fastbuild fat ffmpeg firefox flac fortran gdbm geoip gif git gmp gphoto2 gpm gtk hal hyphenation iconv ieee1394 ipv6 java jpeg kde kqemu lcms ldap libnotify lirc logrotate mad mbox mikmod mmx mng modules mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap mysql nano-syntax ncurses nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin ntfs ogg opengl openmp pam pango pcre pdf perl png ppds pppd python qt3support qt4 rdesktop readline reflection rss samba sdl session slp spell spl sse sse2 ssl ssse3 startup-notification svg sysfs tcpd thinkpad tiff tk truetype udev unicode usb vcd vim-syntax vorbis wmf x264 x86 xcb xcomposite xine xml xorg xpm xscreensaver xulrunner xv xvid zlib" ALSA_CARDS="hda-intel" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic auth_digest authn_anon authn_dbd authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi dav dav_fs dav_lock dbd deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers ident imagemap include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation proxy proxy_ajp proxy_balancer proxy_connect proxy_http rewrite setenvif so speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard evdev mouse" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en en_GB" LIRC_DEVICES="devinput" QEMU_SOFTMMU_TARGETS="i386 x86_64" QEMU_USER_TARGETS="i386 x86_64" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby18" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" 
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS

[Comment 1 Jory A. Pratt 2010-08-12 15:32:39 UTC]

This is due to the cache, not something that will change anytime soon, I suggest you report the issue upstream to mozilla and request them change it there.

[Comment 2 Toralf Förster 2010-08-13 07:56:23 UTC]

https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/questions/747355

[Comment 3 Cedric Knight 2011-01-04 23:48:00 UTC]

I agree this is an upstream problem in Firefox 3.6.  However, I don't believe it is best described as a caching problem. Firefox sends the correct password to phpMyAdmin, but does not follow the resulting 302 redirect, whereas other browsers, such as Konqueror or Epiphany, do.  This may be to do with changed code to prevent redirect loops.  (That the text field contents revert to previous values is therefore probably a separate issue that may have something to do with caching.)

There is an upstream bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=618835, but it doesn't (yet) seem to have had any attention.

[Comment 4 Toralf Förster 2011-01-14 08:45:35 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> There is an upstream bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=618835,
> but it doesn't (yet) seem to have had any attention.
> 
In the mean while there's a solution :-)