[Freeipa-users] Annoying issue with Firefox and kerberos ticket

[Dmitri Pal]

On 11/21/2011 06:11 PM, Steven Jones wrote:
> I followed the prompt that comes up in Firefox...
>
> I have 3.6.24-3.el6 64bit....
>
> No i didnt restart FF, it didnt say I needed to.
>
I had some problem with Kerberos tickets on RHEL5.
I filed a bug about that and it was fixed.
Never had problems since then.
The bug was that FF was holding to expired ticket and not rereading a
new one when it is available.

But I have 3.6.23 on RHEL6 at the moment...

> regards
>
> Steven Jones
>
> Technical Specialist - Linux RHCE
>
> Victoria University, Wellington, NZ
>
> 0064 4 463 6272
>
> ________________________________________
> From: Rob Crittenden [rcritten at redhat.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, 22 November 2011 11:10 a.m.
> To: Steven Jones
> Cc: freeipa-users at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [Freeipa-users] Annoying issue with Firefox and kerberos ticket
>
> Steven Jones wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I got Firefox on the IPA server (RHEL6.2beta 64bit) working yesterday, today the Kerberos ticket had expired, so re-run kinit admin and hit re-try but I still have to re-configure Firefox.....this seems odd....is this a known bug or am I doing something wrong?
> How did you reconfigure it? The button again? Did you look to see if it
> was already configured? Did you try a restart of FF?
>
> Firefox in the past, 3.x-era, tended to be a bit flaky with tickets,
> especially renewing them. I can't recall any problems since 3.6.
>
> rob
>
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Thank you,
Dmitri Pal

Sr. Engineering Manager IPA project,
Red Hat Inc.


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