[Koha] SIP, Envisionware's PC Reservation, and failed login attempts

[Kyle Hall]

That shouldn't be happening on 18.11.10, here is the relevant bug:
https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=21997

Kyle

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On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 12:26 PM Arturo Longoria <
Arturo.Longoria at sll.texas.gov> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I've stumbled upon an issue with my library's setup involving Koha
> 18.11.10 and Envisionware's PC Reservation, but I'm not sure if it's a bug
> or a misconfiguration on our part. If anyone has any tips or feedback, I'd
> really appreciate it!
>
> We use SIP to authenticate patrons who wish to create a computer session
> via PC Reservation. We also have the Koha FailedLoginAttempts preference
> set so that an account is locked after X failed login attempts.
>
> But I'm noticing that the borrowers.login_attempts field is increased by 1
> each time a user logs on to our public computers even if the login is
> successful on the first attempt. That is, when I create a computer session
> successfully, the login_attempts count in the borrowers table is increased
> regardless. I noticed this after doing maintenance on several computers
> that required me to log in via PC Reservation. When I went to log in to the
> staff client later, my account had been locked out.
>
> Has anyone else experienced this?
>
>
> Arturo Longoria
> Web Administrator
> Texas State Law Library
> www.sll.texas.gov
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