Why does Bugzilla bother with the "limit this login to this IP" checkbox if it does nothing? I always uncheck it, and every time Erols drops my dialup connection I have to log in again.
Making it possible to log in from a computer only once no matter how its IP changes would be the single biggest usability gain for Bugzilla from my perspective.
Posted by bzbarsky at August 31, 2003 12:27 PMBugzilla can do that, which is why the checkbox is there (explaining that on the page is bug 193741). Bugzilla.mozilla.org, however, has a restrictive setting (range of 255 IP addresses rather than just a single one, since bug 179192 was fixed, in order to work for people that go through web proxies which perform every page load from a different IP, generally within that small range).
Posted by: michaell on August 31, 2003 2:18 PMWhat michaell said. The chances of you dialing up to any busy POP, getting the same peice of equipment there, and then getting an address on the same address pool on that piece of equipment is rather small.
If your ISP uses transparent proxying, then its more likely to work :) I added the feature to move it from a single IP to an admin-settable netmask for my university's transparent proxying, which kept logging me out.
Posted by: Bradley Baetz on August 31, 2003 4:18 PMIndeed. Checking Bugzilla's params, the netmask is set to "24", i.e. you need an IP address inside the same /24 to keep the login.
How loose would this need to be to work for you?
Gerv
No idea. I can try to sorta keep track of IP addresses every time I dial...
Posted by: Boris on September 2, 2003 9:18 AMwhere is the limit this login to this IP checkbox, I can't find it.
Posted by: Jennifer on October 2, 2003 9:29 AMMy IP is not changing and I still have to login every time I do an operation in Bugzilla. Anyone have this problem?
Posted by: Jennifer on October 2, 2003 10:03 AMIt's on the login page, right under the password field...
Please make sure your cookie settings are not denying (or forgetting) the Bugzilla cookie.
Posted by: Boris on October 2, 2003 10:48 AM