http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=5511 --- Comment #8 from Frère Sébastien Marie <semarie-koha@latrappe.fr> --- (En réponse au commentaire 7)
One of our customers ran into this recently. Given the continued existence of things like web proxy farms that can result in REMOTE_ADDR changing from request to request, a general question -- are there any improvements in the state of the art for anti-session-hijacking measures that would reasonably allow us to remove the IP address check (or implement a syspref like Amit's patch tried)?
If I remember well, the patch disable by default IP restriction. It is bad: hijacking will be easy (just need to steal cookie, with XSS for example).
IMO, a "restrict session by this IP ? Y/n" widget on the login form doesn't seem like a friendly UI choice.
but bugzilla propose the same on logon (and advice that is better to run with). It should be ok with a system with a syspref "session restriction by IP" - always (and no choice at logon) - yes (choice at logon and yes by default) - no (choice at logon and no by default) - never (and no choice at logon) -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the QA Contact for the bug. You are watching all bug changes.