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["Eric G. Wolfe" <address@concealed>]

Gavin Younger wrote:
> > A few months ago, I tried updating Sympa 5.3.4 to 5.4.3,
> > rather unsuccessfully.  We are still running Sympa 5.3.4 in
> > production without any major issues.  We are using a
> > generic_sso configuration in the auth.conf to authenticate
> > with Kerberos using the Apache 2.2 mod_auth_kerb.  So the
> > Apache REMOTE_USER header/server variable is used to do a
> > lookup from the netidmap_table and get the user's e-mail address.
> >
> > So I can login just fine to Sympa 5.4.3.  As soon as I click a
> > link /sympa/pref, I get logged out, then I get a message
> > "ERROR (pref) - You need to login".  If I click the
> > /sympa/serveradmin link, it is the same thing, "ERROR
> > (serveradmin) - You need to login".
> >     
>
> Eric,
>
> Have you applied the following revision? :
>
> http://sourcesup.cru.fr/cgi/viewvc.cgi?view=rev&revision=5027
>
> We had similar problems because the user's email wasn't getting stored 
> correctly in the session table.
>
> Regards,
> Gavin Younger,
> Infrastructure Systems,
> Information Systems and Services,
> Newcastle University, UK
>
>   
Just to follow up, and so that this is archived for others having the 
same problem.  Subversion revision 5027, worked like a charm.  Thanks, 
Gavin.

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