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Bug 298467

Summary: Logout only logs out of fudforum
Product: Community Reporter: Denis Roy <denis.roy>
Component: Forums and NewsgroupsAssignee: Forums and Newsgroups inbox <forums-inbox>
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: chris.guindon, david.balazic, webmaster
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard: stalebug
Bug Depends on: 444519    
Bug Blocks:    

Description Denis Roy CLA 2009-12-23 09:42:33 EST
At first I thought this was a feature, but an interesting use case came from bug 296349 comment 11:

If I click Logout and the Login again, it automatically logs me in instead of
asking for credentials.
So if I want to log in under another account, it is impossible (without
userside hacking).
Comment 1 David Balažic CLA 2009-12-23 09:57:54 EST
What is a feature there?

If the user clicks logout, he does not want to be tracked by the forum any more.
Seems pretty clear to me ;-)
Comment 2 Denis Roy CLA 2009-12-23 10:10:58 EST
Your Eclipse login session is shared with the Forum and other Eclipse.org sites, such as the Wiki and our Blogs.  Currently, if you log out from the Forum, the forum is no longer tracking you, but you're still logged into other sites. That was the feature.

I do agree that Logout should be LOG OUT (of everything).  Please understand that all of these Open Source systems (Forums, Wiki, Blogs) are not designed to talk to each other, and are cobbled together to work with a unified login, each of them tracking session their own little way.
Comment 3 Eclipse Genie CLA 2014-09-17 20:27:24 EDT
This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant.

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Comment 4 Denis Roy CLA 2014-09-18 08:13:34 EDT
cc'ing Chris just FYI.

Recent changes to site_login can now terminate cookies for the forums.  I'll investigate changing the Logout link to point to the site_login logout routine.  That should do it.
Comment 5 Eclipse Genie CLA 2016-09-08 02:11:10 EDT
This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant.

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Comment 6 Eclipse Genie CLA 2018-08-30 02:50:54 EDT
This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant.

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Comment 7 Eclipse Genie CLA 2020-08-20 14:49:58 EDT
This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant.

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Comment 8 Denis Roy CLA 2021-12-20 12:14:21 EST
Wontfix