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| Nick Gammon
Australia (23,140 posts) Bio
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| Tue 01 Sep 2009 10:56 PM (UTC) Amended on Wed 02 Sep 2009 01:40 AM (UTC) by Nick Gammon
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| The forum now allows multiple simultaneous logins from a forum user.
(A side-effect of this will be that all existing logins will be cancelled. You will have to login again).
This has been done to address a few issues:
- You may want to stay logged in at home, and at work
- You may have multiple PCs (eg. desktop, laptop)
- You may use multiple web browsers
- Because of the way cookies are stored, the cookie on your web browser is linked to the "domain" that the cookie comes from, and thus changing from "www.gammon.com.au" to "gammon.com.au", or "mushclient.com" to "www.mushclient.com" all appeared to the web browser to be different sites.
Now, the login token information has been moved to a separate table in the forum database, allowing for multiple logins per registered user. You will still need to login at each different location (eg. each PC), but now you will stay logged in, even if you login again somewhere else.
Note that the default cookie expiry is 7 days, you can change that in your forum profile (click on the 'Edit Profile' link on the top right-hand side of the page after you have logged in).
As a security precaution, the forum now tells you how many logins it has currently open, for example I currently see:
You are logged on as: Nick Gammon (4 logins)
In my case that is because I have tested all four domain names: gammon.com.au, www.gammon.com.au, mushclient.com, and www.mushclient.com.
If you see a higher number than you expect, you should click the "Log Off" button to close the currrent login sessions.
Logging off
If you click "Log Off" it closes all login sessions. This is to allow for the situation where you might have logged into the forum at a friend's house, or somewhere else, and forgot to log off before walking away. To save that PC being left logged in to the forum for weeks, you can simply log off from another PC, thereby cancelling all the existing sessions.
View your sessions
If you click on the "View profile" link on the top right-hand corner of this page (this will only appear if you are logged in) then you will see a list of all your current login sessions, along with their date and IP address. It also shows your current IP address. You could review this list to see if there is a session there that you don't expect. If so, click the "Log off" button to log out of all sessions. An unexpected session might have a different IP address to all the others, or be for a date a long time ago. |
- Nick Gammon
www.gammon.com.au, www.mushclient.com | | Top |
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The dates and times for posts above are shown in Universal Co-ordinated Time (UTC).
To show them in your local time you can join the forum, and then set the 'time correction' field in your profile to the number of hours difference between your location and UTC time.
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