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Login issues

Posted: Sat May 15, 2010 7:50 pm
by galinette
Hi all,

I now have this repeatable bug:

I use the "auto log-in" option. When I go to the website, it recognizes me successfully : "You are logged in as galinette". But when I try to reply to a post, it asks me a login and password. And then, if I enter them, I am told that my login/password is incorrect. I have to log-out, and re log-in manually on the top banner, in order to be able to reply.

I use firefox 3.6.3 under windows XP. This happens on my two machines (can it be due to the fact I auto-login from two different machines?)

Regards,

Etienne

Re: Login issues

Posted: Sat May 15, 2010 8:15 pm
by lycium
Noted and added to our bugtracker, this is quite high priority; thanks for the repeatable steps!

Re: Login issues

Posted: Sat May 15, 2010 8:57 pm
by galinette
Hmmm... This is strange. It happened all the time yesterday and happened again this morning. Now, I'm trying to reproduce, and it does not happen again... Maybe it requires a cookie to be outdated to happen. I will keep testing.

However, one thing seems to be very repeatable : when I try to reply when not logged in, it asks me for login/password as expected, in a form which is different from the standard login form. And this one never works (always says me my login/password is wrong, and that maximum number of retries has been reached, with a anti-bot text recognition image). So I always have to log-in via the main banner.

So it seems there are two independant bugs :
- The login form when you try to reply which never works for me
- The "already logged-in but prompted to login when replying to a post" which is likely related to cookies and maybe to multiple computer users with autologin, but not easy to trigger intentionally.

Etienne

Re: Login issues

Posted: Sat May 15, 2010 9:00 pm
by lycium
Yeah it's a slippery one that's been on our radar for a while :?

Re: Login issues

Posted: Sun May 16, 2010 4:48 am
by galinette
I edited the previous post just after you replied, there is more info in it

Etienne

Re: Login issues

Posted: Sun May 16, 2010 12:56 pm
by CoolColJ
I keep getting in both IE and Firefox :(

It says I'm logged in but I can't post. I have to log out and then come into the forum and re log in etc

Re: Login issues

Posted: Sat May 22, 2010 7:09 am
by Josh
I suppose that Drupal and phpBB (or whatever you are using) have different cookie expiration times?
Front page just said I was logged in but the forums didn't.

Edit: ... after I had been absent for a while.