Random (?) login problems

D_Schroeder_Micheel · November 27, 2017, 9:36am

This also doesn’t seem to fix it. Still I can login with Firefox and IE while logging in with Chrome is a no-go.

lucasdiedrich · August 28, 2018, 5:40pm

Hello, i have just upgraded from 2.4.8 to 3.1.1-2 and now i can’t login, noone can actually. I’ve:

Cleaned session table
Cleaned cache folder
Ensured session_cookie_name = OJSSID and changed it,
Ensured encryption = md5
With salt commented or not
session_check_ip setting to Off

And now i still can’t login and can’t find where to look, anyideas @asmecher

lucasdiedrich · August 29, 2018, 4:54pm

Just to check it out, i generated another MD5 hash using user_name + user_password, changed at the database and the user was able to login again. My question is, why the new OJS can’t generate an md5 hash as OJS 2 was able to??

As i’ve many users in the database, i can’t regenerate all passwords. Any ideas @asmecher

asmecher · August 29, 2018, 6:44pm

Hi @lucasdiedrich,

OJS 3.x introduces a newer, more secure hashing method. When users with old password hashes log in, the hashes should be automatically converted over to the new format in the DB column.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

lucasdiedrich · August 31, 2018, 12:54pm

Thanks @asmecher, i was able to fix it, for some reason the hashing method was wrong.