Bug 129672 - Timeout of user Session still results in null pointer error
Summary: Timeout of user Session still results in null pointer error
Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Network
Classification: Red Hat
Component: RHN/R&D
Version: RHN Devel
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jesus M. Rodriguez
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Blocks: rhnMilestone1
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Reported: 2004-08-11 18:53 UTC by Mike McCune
Modified: 2007-04-18 17:10 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2004-08-20 02:49:47 UTC

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Description Mike McCune 2004-08-11 18:53:12 UTC 
Bookmark a page specific to a User (for example:
http://localhost:8080/Addresses.do?uid=2266493) and let your session
timeout.

Then hit the URL again and you get:

[ServletException in:/WEB-INF/pages/addresses.jsp]
IllegalInvocationException calling aclOrgEntitlement
("org_entitlement(rhn_monitor)"): null'
Comment 1 Jesus M. Rodriguez 2004-08-19 22:26:12 UTC 
The culprit is in the NavMenuTag.java file.  If the request attribute
"session" is null, we set the user to null.  Then we proceed to call
the AclGuard with a null user.  Bad idea.
Comment 2 Jesus M. Rodriguez 2004-08-20 02:46:43 UTC 
Reassigning to jesusr
Comment 3 Jesus M. Rodriguez 2004-08-20 02:49:47 UTC 
Fixed in Access.java.  Rather than fix the tag, I fixed the acl.  It
should return false if it can't access the user.
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