Re: Proposal: Logout user when they change their password.

2012-01-10 Thread Arnoud van Heuvelen
Op dinsdag 10 januari 2012 03:56:04 UTC+1 schreef Sergiy het volgende: > > I'm not sure that invalidating session based on last password change is > the right thing to do. If the password has been compromised, this > effectively enables an active attacker to deny access to the legitimate > user.

Re: Proposal: Logout user when they change their password.

2012-01-08 Thread Arnoud van Heuvelen
Well, as far as I see it, we have a number of options. These are some I could come up with, but maybe someone else has a better idea: 1) Save the user_id with the session. This is probably not convenient, because it might conflict with other applications that use the session package. Of course we

Proposal: Logout user when they change their password.

2012-01-07 Thread Arnoud van Heuvelen
Hi, I recently ran into a minor security issue with Django Auth. Currently, when a user changes their password, the user will stay logged in on all open sessions. This is a problem when a password is compromised. The user will change their password and be confident that the problem is solved. How