Problem only with certain users logging in with bridged phpbb

[Hell Phoenix]

I have been pulling my hair out for weeks trying to figure this out.  At first I thought my users were crazy, but after a few of them gave me their passwords to try with, sure enough, it doesnt see them as logged in.  The bridging works for most users and new accounts, just not certain accounts that were already there.  I have not been able to find any similarities between any of the users.  I just updated to 1.4.10 and that didnt help anything.  I can give someone a username/password of a user to try if they want to see (cant give a test user because it works for new accounts).

Coppermine install: http://www.frenchys-pit.com/coppermine/
Coppermine version: cpg1.4.10
Forum version: phpBB2 2.0.21

(PHPBB2 Settings)
Cookie domain: 
Cookie name:  frenchys
Cookie path:  /

(CPG1.4.10 settings)
Forum URL:  http://www.frenchys-pit.com/forums 
Relative path to your BBS's config file:  ../forums/ 
Use post-based groups?:  0 
Cookie prefix:  frenchys

[Sami]

http://coppermine-gallery.net/demo/cpg14x/docs/index.htm#integrating_users_start

[Hell Phoenix]

So is there someway I can fix the users?  I can create a sql query if I know what I need to change. 

[Sami]

- You can find all cpg users data on xxx_users table of cpg database
- import them to your forums users table

[Hell Phoenix]

There is only the one user in that table...the admin account I created when I setup CPG as a standalone. 

[Hell Phoenix]

I should probably mention that there were never any standalone users.  The users who dont have access used to have access when we were integrated with phpnuke.  I moved our website over to phpbb and all the users with it.

[Joachim Müller]

Then the users should exist in phpBB.

[Hell Phoenix]

The users do exist in phpbb.  They can see and use the forums just fine.  They just cant use/login to the gallery.

[Joachim Müller]

Then do exactly as suggested in the sticky thread on this board.

[Hell Phoenix]

The only thing I can see that I am missing is the test user.  The test user works but here it is anyways:

Username: testies
Password: test

I would be willing to give the username/password of one of the accounts, but I wont do that in public as it is a users real account.

[Joachim Müller]

Logging in with the test user account you provided works just fine. The login sticks. What's the actual issue?

[Hell Phoenix]

Certain users it doesnt see as logged in.  Not all of them, just some.  All new registrations seem to work fine.

[Joachim Müller]

Do you experience the same thing, or are those just reports from your users? Tell the users who complain about the login not sticking to review their cookie settings in their browser and their desktop security app (pseudo-security apps like "Norton Internet Security" and similar crap are notorious for interferingwith cookie authentification). Tell them to delete their cookies for testing purposes or trying to use another browser. Can't help you much with reports from your user - that's just hearsay if you ask me. Most of those issues usually turn out to be PEBKAC-related.

[Hell Phoenix]

Thats what I thought too but I had multiple give me their passwords and I logged in as them.  It didnt work for me either when I tried as them (but it does work as me).

[Joachim Müller]

Well, authentification is being handled by the app you bridge with. If this is related to certain users, try to figure out what makes them special: are they in a particular group in your BBS or is there anything else special about them. Try to find out what the accounts that don't work have in common.

[Hell Phoenix]

Ok last shot at some help here =(

If I change their user_id in the phpbb_users table to a new id# (for example from 1447 to 2083) then they get logged in fine.  How strange is that.  Any ideas?

[Joachim Müller]

Like I suggested above: this can happen if their primary group membership is set to a group that doesn't exist (in your bbs app, not in Coppermine!), that's why I suggested checking what those accounts have in common.