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Zoph is prompting for username and password two more times after logging in to FreedomBox

My FreedomBox is...

\> You are running Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm) and FreedomBox version 24.24. FreedomBox is up to date.

I think I'm getting too many login prompts when trying to use Zoph. I would expect to log in to FreedomBox and then Zoph would use SSO. I have duplicated this problem with my joseph user (my normal FreedomBox account with FB and Zoph admin privs) and with an ordinary FreedomBox user joe for which I manually created a corresponding Zoph account named joe with no password specified in the Zoph user creation form. During periods of normal use where I'm not trying to recreate this problem, sometimes I have a Zoph login prompt and sometimes I do not. I have not recognized a pattern yet.

Here's how this really goes for me:

  1. Log out of Zoph

  2. Log out of FreedomBox

  3. Clear the FreedomBox cookies from the browser

  4. Clear any FreedomBox saved passwords from the browser

  5. Close all of the browser windows

  6. Open a new browser and log in to FreedomBox with username and password as expected.

  7. Click the Zoph tile from FreedomBox

  8. A login prompt appears even though I'm already logged into FreedomBox. The blurred host name is my FreedomBox FQDN.

    Screenshot from 2024-12-12 11-53-27.png

    This may be a corresponding log entry: myfb:443 192.168.144.101 - joe [12/Dec/2024:12:06:02 -0700] "GET /zoph/css.php?logged_on=no HTTP/2.0" 200 910 "https://myfb/zoph/logon.php" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; rv:128.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/128.0"

  9. The the Zoph page opens (with visible content) and asks again for login credentials. The blurred hostname is the FreedomBox FQDN.

    Screenshot from 2024-12-12 11-53-48.png

Next I'm going to see if I can duplicate this again under more normal circumstances (no cookie, password deletion etc.). I have seen this behavior in more ordinary use cases.