Re: [webmin-devel] Changing time to the future can trigger webmin session inactivity timeout

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 05:21, Colm Dougan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> When using webmin-1.020 if I use the /time page to change the system
> time but I have set a session inactivity timeout my session expires. 
> I realise this is "what it does" but I was wondering if anyone had any
> tricks to get around this as it is confusing behaviour to the user. 
> I'm prepared to accept that if someone manually sets the time on the
> box then the behaviour is OK but not in the circumstanes where I'm
> using the webmin CGI script.  Any ideas?

I can see how this problem could occur - when the time is set forward,
Webmin will check the last-activity time for subsequent pages, and find
that all sessions are now expired! Unfortunately, I can't think of any
easy solution :-(

 - Jamie