Streaming breaks after password change

[jdppm7]

After changing your password, streaming doesn't seem to work. Error messages pile up in you apache error log: "Error, unable to authenticate user." If you log out and log back in the problem is fixed.

I haven't had time to dive into the code to find the problem, but if I run across the solution I'll fix it.

Zoneminde 1.23.1, SuSE 10.3, Apache 2.2.4, PHP 5.2.5

[zoneminder]

Yes, the authentication key is based on the password and generated when you log in. You always have to log out and back in again when you change passwords. This isn't a bug but perhaps could be better explained.

[jdppm7]

I guess i didn't realize that. Sorry if it was a waste of time.

I'll see if I could write a patch that would correct that behavior and submit it for others.

[robi]

Why is that a problem? It's a useful security feature, why destroy it?

[jdppm7]

Really? I don't see how that's a useful security feature at all. Care to elaborate?

[robi]

I think it is, but hey, everyone has his own opinion. Perhaps a checkbox in options would allow one to skip using this.

It would make things less secure... because now changing the password is an easy way to prevent one's access to a stream, and it would break the stream immediately, as it does now.
Why do you need to change password while you're watching it? Why is it a problem to re-login?

Actually this is not a bug, this is so by design, and it works just the way it should.