The Problem
I want to clear all sessions for all users in my Laravel application.
What I have tried
I understand that Auth::logout() will log out a single user, but not all users. I have also tried deleting the session files from storage/framework/sessions. Neither have worked.
I am using the built in Authentication (e.g. Auth) and the file driver for sessions running Laravel 5.2.
How can I effectively force logout for all logged in users so they have to log in again?
It's worth noting that Laravel actually only stores active sessions in the session folder; those that are 'remembered' but haven't been actively accessing your application do not count among these sessions. As such, just deleting the files won't finish the job.
You must also clear all Remember Tokens from the users table, as this token is used in conjunction with the local token stored in the cookie to re-create the session when a user reconnects.
in app/session.php you can change cookie value, so user will automatically logout because of cookie is not match with the config
Simply regenerate the APP_KEY with following command.
php artisan key:generate
This will regenerate the APP_KEY, which will be used to encrypt and decrypt the cookies. Since it changes, all the cookies will be invalidated. Users has to login again.
Alternate:
You could also flush all cache by following command:
php artisan cache:clear
Related
I'm running a PHP application on Heroku and handling sessions using Memcachier add-on.
What Works:
- Memcachier successfully keeps users logged in through new deployments to Heroku.
What Doesn't Work
- Users will get logged out randomly throughout their time in the web application.
How do I get the user sessions to stay logged in (until the user logs out - or some other automatic login policy we put in place)?
Memcache is not recommended for storing sessions as it is a cache and not a persistant cache. What this means is that any key/value pair can get pushed out by new pairs if the cache is full. To get session persistance either switch to a different memcache server (with persistance) or store you sessions differently (eg: in a database)
I have created a website, I have to login to view this site, now I have copied all files into a new directory and created a separate database for that.
The problem is whenever I am logging in one site the other one is also logging in, and also for log out. Can anyone tell me why this is happening? My server is running on localhost (XAMPP).
I followed this tutorial to create login page:
https://www.tutorialspoint.com/php/php_mysql_login.htm
When us store data in the session like you do at $_SESSION['login_user'], this session stored data is for your domain. When you copy the application in an other directory, it still runs under the same domain thus it will access the same session data. You can fix this by making the session data key unique to its directory ex. $_SESSION[$domain.'_login_user'] with $domain being some application specific variable.
Also take a look into session hijacking when using sessions, you are definitely not using them safely: PHP Session Fixation / Hijacking
I am using laravel 5.1 with Sentinel - Cartalyst auth driver. Problem is that Laravel can't "keep" users logged in. After some time (when they visit website) it automatically kicks them out with error that they are not logged in (I have filter that checks if user is logged in for every route expect login route). It really bugs me and I can't fix it.
I tried using cookies, file and database driver for keeping login sessions and they all fail.
Does someone knows how to deal with this problem? I am bulding project for Intranet users (under local domain)... Maybe that could be problem? Also I notice that cookies expiration time is current datetime that laravels sets for max expiration time.
Are you sure you imported the correct namespace path to Cartalyst? I had an issue with sessions not persisting and it was caused by importing the native php Cartalyst class rather than the laravel one. It should be something like Cartalyst\Sentinel\Laravel\Facades\Sentinel::class
I'm using https://github.com/panique/php-login-advanced login script, also there is a NodeJS server which authenticates users by their session cookies. The problem is when the user resets his password, he's still able to authenticate with his old session cookie. My goal is to remove all cookies for a user that reseted his password, so he will not be able to re-authenticate with his old session cookie. Already tried with php script that is searching for all sessions in /var/lib/php5/* and deletes them. All was fine while running that script under 'root', but this is not an option and apache user don't have privileges to read this folder. I'm looking for a better solution than just give read/write privileges to that folder.
Instead of using file-based sessions with PHP, why not use something like redis instead? Then both node and PHP can access the same session easily and removing the session is simple. For this kind of solution see this answer as a guide.
Just reset the session storage path(session.save_path) in your php.in to a directory accessible by apache and restart you apache server
I have a user authenticated in a laravel app. I have a third party app that needs to see if this user is authenticated in said laravel app. I see there is a cookie called laravel_session and the contents are something like:
eyJpdiI6ImZIdGo0XC9cL1I2RWpzOUppQmRqcTljNFZ0SFJNMTBrc3l5OTVIN12h3ks03RT0iLCJ2YWx1ZSI6InNMWXZCcm44N1pmVnpTWEU3WStEMTBNckJGUFdJVEJFY3lMWGNIdUVkS0p5RlwvNzJGVXVpVFEwZnNqSDdFc0c4d0hPOTIrSFA3UG1heFIxanZWWk1231209IiwibWFjIjoiYzc1MTQxNjEyMTU5MTdjZGE0NDYwOTY2OGExYTYxOTc0MjA5MmJhdsdhZDMwOGZjNmIzYjE0ZmQ4MDI3MjkwMCJ9
I see in the app/stoage/session directory, one file named 164d51a82e239ae352792311f24e29c3670bf027 which contains the correct serialized data for that user.
How do I associate the two without loading up any laravel classes/code? In other words, how do I find out which session file belongs to the user just by their cookie info?
Thanks!
Laravel automatically encrypts it's cookies with PHP's mcrypt extension.
You can try modify Laravel cookies implementation but this is not recommended.
Maybe writing an artisan command that uses the Encrypter class will be the solution, or just find another way to achieve your goal.