Hi all, We've recently started using AdminAuth in settings.js to secure our flows. We're using node-red through a docker container, running on Portainer. I've noticed that every time I login into a node-red flow, it disconnects after a few minutes and I get "You must be logged in to deploy changes…

I don't think it crashes, because I also take the flow from git, and if it crashed it would have asked me to pull the flow again (the flow would be restarted). I also looked at the logs and it doesn't say anything like "flow started" in between these disconnections. I asked other people who are al…

Are you running multiple instances of the same container? One thing you could try is to turn on audit-level logging (set audit to true in the logging section of settings.js). You'll then get more logging related to access to the admin API. Using that, watch what log messages you get starting from …

No, they're all running on one instance only. I will try that and update. Thanks!

I tried updating the "audit" key to true in settings.js and restarted the flow, but for some reason it didn't give any more details regarding the authentication process. As you can see here, it shows I'm logged in, but when checking inside the console it says I'm not (also when trying to hit deploy…

The audit logs will appear in the runtime log, not the editor. The log output you've shared shows no audit log output.

Where can I find it? The containers are hosted on a docker swarm server that I don't have direct access to (or at least not sudo access)

You shared a screenshot of the node-red log in your previous post.... that's the log that should contain the audit logs.

Hi, Did you mean the dev tools debugger? If so, then this is what I get: [image]

No, I meant the other screenshot you shared - that started Welcome to Node-RED

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Steve-Mcl 24 March 2021 15:39 2

I suspect your image is crashing and restarting. Check logs for clues.

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AdminAuth disconnects every few minutes

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