Thanks for the response. This is a blocker for me. I disabled all of my explicit getSubject() calls but perhaps something else is still making the invocation. Would any Spring application be making this call? (In other words, would any Grails app being making the same call that you saw?)

Thanks,

Brad


Jeremy Haile wrote:
I just ran into this same problem. I think it is a JSecurity bug. The problem is that if any methods invoke getSubject() after logout() is called, but during the same request, a new subject will be created. But since the remember me cookie is still present, the subject gets created in the new Session with the remembered principals.

The problem doesn't occur if getSubject() isn't called after logout(). In my case, Spring was calling request.getUserName(), which under the hood called JSecurity's getSubject(). To stop this from happening I had to set the publishEvents init-param to false on my Spring DispatcherServlet, which stopped Spring from calling the getUserName() function.

Still - this shouldn't be necessary and I think the onus is on JSecurity to figure out how to make this not happen. Perhaps we can set a request attribute that causes the remember me cookie to not be honored for the remainder of that request. Any other ideas for how to work around this problem?

I filed a bug report here: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JSEC-57

Jeremy


On Feb 6, 2009, at 6:26 PM, Brad Whitaker wrote:

I'm having a problem that I don't fully understand. After I invoke logout() the subject.principal becomes null as expected, but upon redirect the subject.principal is no longer null -- the user is remembered again. The log messages from JSecurity indicate a rememberMe cookie has been found when I think it probably shouldn't be found.

The issue does not occur in my devel environment (Grails, HSQLDB) but only in production (Tomcat, MySql, war deployed as ROOT). My signout code does this:

log.info "signout: enter: getPrincipal=${SecurityUtils?.getSubject()?.getPrincipal()}"
          SecurityUtils.subject?.logout()
log.info "signout: after logout: getPrincipal=${SecurityUtils?.getSubject()?.getPrincipal()}"
          redirect(controller: 'home')

My log shows this. (You'll notice that I have several 'before' and 'after' filters)

  02/06 15:10:57 INFO  grails.app.controller.AuthController  -
  signout: enter:  [email protected]
  02/06 15:10:57 DEBUG org.jsecurity.web.attr.CookieAttribute  - No
  value found in request Cookies under cookie name [rememberMe]
  02/06 15:10:57 INFO  grails.app.controller.AuthController  -
  signout: after logout:  getPrincipal=null
  02/06 15:10:57 INFO  grails.app.filters.SslFilters  - DebugFilter:
  after: controller=auth action=signOut params=["action":"signOut",
  "controller":"auth"] principal=null
  02/06 15:10:57 DEBUG org.jsecurity.web.attr.CookieAttribute  - Found
  string value
[clJgEjFZVuRRN5lCpInkOsawSaKK4hLwegZK/QgR1Thk380v5wL9pA1NZo7QHr7erlnry1vt2AqIyM8Fj2HBCsl1lierxE9EJ1typI2GpgMeG+HmceNdrlN6KGh4AmjLG3zCUPo8E+QzGVs/EO3PIAGyYYtuYbW++oJDr5xfY9DwK4Omq5GijZSSmdpOHiYelPMa1XLwT0D/kNCUm6EVfG6TKwxViNtGdyzknY7abNU7ucw2UWfjFe24hH0SL0hZMXjPQYtMnPl5J5qfjU4EXX1a/Ijn0IKUEk5BmY+ipc6irMI/Rrmumr7XSSncSHq2cpyNbwJBykFX5s/ydB64hbMenS+LhbUvnQBNt8Xkjyc+IrzntDuVGH4IGfnRIAOwDkU6EZPQ4v36wbd8IB3kUFW1/1z6ZvS4jsIgMA3TS2xMjhGB8FWnIG9RSOrT+nlejddqoRsTWWmEAWUuaOV3tZLci69POQ5k]
  from HttpServletRequest Cookie [rememberMe]
  02/06 15:10:57 INFO  grails.app.filters.SslFilters  - DebugFilter:
  before: controller=home action=null params=["controller":"home"]
  [email protected]
  02/06 15:10:57 INFO  grails.app.filters.SslFilters  - DebugFilter:
  after: controller=home action=index params=["controller":"home"]
  [email protected]

Is this a bug in JSecurity or am I doing something wrong? Is there a work around for this?

Thanks,

Brad






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