Comment by 0xQSL
2 days ago
My employer just started doing daily reauth for all microsoft logins (teams, ...). The worst thing is that it's just 24h not start of day, so it may just be five seconds before you want to join a meeting.
They haven't found the setting for mobile yet, so I might just stop using desktop teams.
Had that on the WiFi system at a facility I used to work from for a while.
When you connect to their WiFi, you go to a guest portal to connect to the internet. The guest portal grants your MAC address 24 hours of access. Meaning one day you get to work at 9, the next day you get in at 8:55, you’ll have 5 minutes more of WiFi before things just stop working and your system takes a minute to realize you need to reauth with the captive portal
This is why 24 hours is a particularly bad timespan for reauthentication. With e.g. 16 hours, you’d at least get a predictable prompt on each new workday.
One time I led a project and ran daily standups by screen-sharing our Asana board so the team could review in-progress tasks. Every day, right in the middle of the meeting, Asana logged me out. I’d rush to log back in to finish the review, thus ensuring we’d repeat the cycle exactly 24 hours later. This silly dance lasted the whole project.
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And successfully opening a wifi captive portal is the most difficult thing to achieve in all of tech for some reason.
It's even harder than moving a file from a desktop into a telephone on the same LAN with an USB cable plugging both.
Computer security has a problem.
man, I thought that was just me.
I’ve been complaining about this exact thing at my company for years. The worst is, they actually had it at 12h but rolled it up to 24h after some exec complained he had to sign on twice in one day.
This also just happened to me too, except we only use Outlook. Web Outlook handles this state really poorly for some reason. It doesn't kick me out, it just pops up a little banner.