CSRF protection for the login form. The authenticate_user_login function was
extended to validate the token (in \core\session\manager) but by default it
does not perform the extra validation. Existing uses of this function from
auth plugins and features like "change password" will continue to work without
changes. New config value $CFG->disablelogintoken can bypass this check.
There is an edge case whereby redis will fail
to accept connections on the first try but
retrying the connection seems to make it work
Included in this commit:
* Retry functionality in the session init
The redis session handler doesn't use the sessiontimeout config setting
to determine session lifetime.
It has a lock expiry, which is set to 7200 (or a config setting) that is
used to determine how long a lock is held onto, but that should be
distinct from the session timeout.
We should complete the deletion process using the same
user that started it.
Added a new param to loginas() to prevent the event to be generated as
there is no need to generate an new event for that as the user didn't
explicitly loginas again.
This is primarily because iOS has changed something under the hood which
means that only session cookies which have an expiry are passed around the
OS.
In order to make media playable outside of the browser (e.g. a video), we
must set a session cookie timeout.
Since the session timeout is configurable, this patch sets the cookie
timeout to the session timeout plus a period of one week.
This ensures that videos continue to work, and that the expired session
message is shown on the login page, but without requiring excessively long
session times.
It is now possible to set up Redis as a session handler for Moodle.
Ensure that the phpredis extension is enabled and working on your sever.
Please place the following lines in config.php
$CFG->session_handler_class = '\core\session\redis';
$CFG->session_redis_save_path = 'tcp://127.0.0.1';
To determine if it has been set correctly, navigate to
$CFG->wwwroot/admin/phpinfo.php and find following the strings in the
session block,
session.save_handler = redis
session.save_path = tcp://127.0.0.1
For pages where there will be significant user interaction in which the
server is not updated, it may be necessary to poll the server periodically
to touch the session.
This makes use of the existing checknet script which was designed for
checking network connectivity but fits into this use-case reasonably well.
This reverses the references used for global $USER and $SESSION,
the reason is that PHP does not allow references to references.
$USER is a reference to $GLOBALS['USER'] which means we cannot
put any references to it. Solution is to store the current user and session
objects in $GLOBALS['USER'] and $GLOBALS['SESSIOn'] are reference
them in $_SESSION.
This patch makes the session code behave the same way in CLI,
phpunit and normal web requests - this allows use to finally
unit test most aspects of the session code in Moodle.
This commit adds a session handler which works using memcache (without
requiring the memcached extension), similar to the support for
memcache within MUC.
This may be less reliable than memcached but we have been using a
similar approach on our system without problems. In case, I added a
warning in config-dist.php.
