[Koha-devel] Do we track / record client IP in Koha anywhere?

Barton Chittenden barton at bywatersolutions.com
Tue Jun 27 13:23:50 CEST 2017


IP address is also written to (intranet|opac)-access.log. There is no user
information logged, but there might be enough URL and browser information
logged to leak the user's identity, especially in combination with
information in the database.

On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 4:45 PM, Chris Cormack <chrisc at catalyst.net.nz>
wrote:

> * Indranil Das Gupta (indradg at gmail.com) wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> As $SUBJECT says. Do we?
>>
>
> Once a user is logged in, their ip is stored in the session data.
> If you are using mysql or disk for this, and never purge them then you
> effectively log IP numbers for logged in users.
> However if you use memcached or purge the tables, they are only there a
> short time.
>
> (This is discounting webserver logs of course)
>
> Hope this helps
>
> Chris
>
>
>
>> regards
>> indranil
>>
>>
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