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User1460
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Automatic login

Post by User1460 » Sat Dec 04, 2010 2:32 pm

Hi;
my account won't login automatically, and yes I have cookies enabled.
What can I do please?

The Dude
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Re: Automatic login

Post by The Dude » Mon Dec 06, 2010 3:09 pm

Nothing. It hasn't worked for months.

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Praeothmin
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Re: Automatic login

Post by Praeothmin » Mon Dec 06, 2010 3:33 pm

I suggest practicing your login so much you can do it with your eyes closed.
It's what I did... :)

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Re: Automatic login

Post by Jedi Master Spock » Mon Dec 06, 2010 3:39 pm

Hm. I'll look at this.

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Re: Automatic login

Post by Lucky » Tue Dec 07, 2010 12:02 am

Why would anyone want to be logged in automatically?

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Mr. Oragahn
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Re: Automatic login

Post by Mr. Oragahn » Sat Dec 11, 2010 2:54 pm

Lucky wrote:Why would anyone want to be logged in automatically?
Indeed, why?
It's not like every board does it. :p

No, really. It's a part that's broken, and it seems to come in different flavours depending on the user. I know I cleaned some cookies and other things, but that's not changed anything.

There seems to be some solutions, but I'm sure that anything I have unveiled by a few clicks through Google, JMS already knows all too well.
Examples: 1, 2.
There just are times when systems doesn't are to won't not being friendly.

It's like the whole "&sid..." thing that's glued to any link.

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Re: Automatic login

Post by Jedi Master Spock » Mon Dec 13, 2010 3:01 am

Well, it might be fixed for you now, but I give no guarantees. Autologin on phpBB seems to be one of those things that just doesn't work very well.

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Re: Automatic login

Post by Mike DiCenso » Mon Dec 13, 2010 4:03 am

It's no big deal to me, really.
-Mike

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Re: Automatic login

Post by Mr. Oragahn » Mon Dec 13, 2010 10:49 pm

Mike DiCenso wrote:It's no big deal to me, really.
-Mike
Well clearly it's a bug you can easily work around.
I keep improving my box-checking. :)

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Re: Automatic login

Post by Mr. Oragahn » Tue Dec 14, 2010 3:11 am

Hey, I don't know what kind of miracle you have achieved there, JMS, but thus far no more problem. Autologin and &sid are gone.
What was it? (assuming you're not revealing some crucial security thing here)

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Re: Automatic login

Post by Jedi Master Spock » Wed Dec 15, 2010 5:06 am

Fixed the cookie domain settings. I remember that the old cookie settings had to be fiddled with a few times to work and eventually did, so either my host changed something or one of the updates changed something. This was a simple problem, I just wasn't aware of it.

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Re: Automatic login

Post by 2046 » Thu Dec 23, 2010 3:36 am

I thought I'd seen someone else mention this months ago and that it required a per-user fix from JMS, e.g. messaging him to request it. I just never felt like bugging our gracious host about it.

Thanks Padathrawn!

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Re: Automatic login

Post by Mith » Wed Jan 12, 2011 8:18 am

Yeah, I just noticed the improvement myself. My auto-log in only stayed if I remained on the site or left for maybe a minute or two with the same tab. Anything beyond that and it logged me out. Thanks!

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