Microsoft teams web stuck in redirect loop (after successful login)
This only seam to happen in Linux.
I've tried flushing the cache, manually deleting local-storage, cookies etc.
Started in a new incognito windows, rebooted the machine just to be sure.
Every now and then, after a successful login on our company sites single sign-on portal, I get redirected to teams as expected - but I get stuck in a redirect-loop/login-loop.
Here's a video showing the issue: https://youtu.be/Py-gmHw4CfM
Anton Hvornum
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Anonymous
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same happens on windows
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J.
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Had the exact same problem on my (also Linux) computer. Thanks for posting the video. Cause was: computer time was in the future because of timezone change (daylight saving time). Fixed it by adjusting the computer's time. Maybe try doing the same.
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Anton Hvornum
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I will add that the support article: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoftteams/troubleshoot/teams-sign-in/sign-in-loop gave me hope. Although it didn't solve my issues. (I don't mind the example being Edge, self promotion is a thing). But there's no cookies being blocked, I allow all third party cookies and have no addons enabled.
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Iain Smith
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I have the same issue as above.
- installed teams_1.3.00.5153_amd64.deb onto Ubuntu 20.04 LTS
- I can start up Teams, and sign in with my personal microsoft/skype account usename/password, and everything works
- If instead I log in using my work ID (federated company sign-in), behaviour is exactly as per Anton's video. I get directed to the organisational sign-in page, then on being returned to Teams am stuck in a kind of redirect-loop which stops after a while with the 'can't log you in' message.If I sign in on my Windows 10 system, the company login works fine and Teams starts up ok.
On Both systems, my main browser is Firefox 77.0.1 (64-bit). I use Firefox Sync, meaning that both the Ubuntu and Windows systems have identical Firefox settings, plugins etc.
Perhaps related to this problem - I can sign in using my company federated login to office.com to access Office365 apps on the Windows 10 system - but not on the Ubuntu Linux system. After login on Ubuntu, using the same version of Firefox as on Windows with the same settings, I am returned to the office.com main page with login link as if I had not logged in at all. The same happens using Chrome on Ubuntu.
However, if I use a browser plugin to change the Ubuntu Firefox (or Chrome) user-agent string to mimic the user-agent string on the Windows 10 computer - ie. in Firefox I change it from
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:77.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/77.0
to
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:77.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/77.0Then the office365 login from Ubuntu works fine, and I can access and use the office365 apps - onedrive, excel etc - fine. Just by only changing the user-agent header sent by the browser to make it look like I've logged in from a Windows machine.
Could the Linux Teams client federated login be hitting the same issue around user-agent header handling as the office365 login? I notice that when Linux Teams is running, there are teams processes visible with a --user-agent string as an argument to the process (obviously including the detected OS details - X11; Linux x86_64). I haven't yet been able to rig up anything that will change this --user-agent argument to mimic a Windows client when the Teams processes start up, in order to test if that fixes the Teams login as it did the office365 browser login
Grateful for any investigation / feedback / fixes to this - and many thanks for releasing a Linux version - much appreciated!
cheers Iain
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