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#1 anonymous_user

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Posted 12 October 2008 - 01:39 PM

I cant seem to stay logged in for more than one day or two.

Sometimes Ill go to the forum and Ill see the guest panel on the main page (meaning Im not logged in).

This seemed to happen recently and my Firefox 3.0.3 is set to accept cookies from msfn.org. What could be wrong?

And one more thing, Im not clearing my cookies and its only this forum.

This post has been edited by anonymous_user: 12 October 2008 - 01:39 PM

#2 Legolash2o

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Posted 13 October 2008 - 12:35 AM

I'm experiencing this problem too, i even had to log in to reply to this.

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Posted 13 October 2008 - 01:00 AM

And I thought it was just me... I think I had to login like three times just today.

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#4 gamehead200

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Posted 13 October 2008 - 08:20 AM

You guys are not alone. Happened to me too. Note, though, that MSFN just had its forum software upgraded.

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Posted 13 October 2008 - 08:43 AM

gamehead200, on Oct 13 2008, 04:20 PM, said:

You guys are not alone. Happened to me too. Note, though, that MSFN just had its forum software upgraded.

Yes, me too. Please be patient. We work on it.

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Posted 13 October 2008 - 08:21 PM

IPB 2.3.5 will solve the issue of Logging in all the time.

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Posted 13 October 2008 - 08:33 PM

...What? Is the 5 a typo?

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Posted 13 October 2008 - 10:10 PM

Tarun, on Oct 14 2008, 01:33 PM, said:

...What? Is the 5 a typo?

The latest version of IPB is version 2.3.5 so it isn't a typo.

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Posted 13 October 2008 - 10:33 PM

Sorry but that is incorrect and the forums are up-to-date.

http://forums.invisi...howtopic=277604

I too am experiencing the logout issue.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1b1) Gecko/20081007 Firefox/3.1b1 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729) - Build ID: 20081007144708

#10 James_A

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Posted 14 October 2008 - 04:03 AM

If Session Expiration is set (as it is on my board) then this behaviour is by design, as a security measure.

See IPB Getting Started Guide for details.

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Posted 14 October 2008 - 08:33 AM

And I thought it's my customized Opera config again. Poor thing - I blame it for all sort of stuff, and it's innocent. :wub:

Opera doesn't even suggest "wand" password. It seems login info is stored/managed in cookies only.

This is not security, it's paranoia. :ph34r:

Please change it.

GL

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Posted 14 October 2008 - 10:02 AM

GrofLuigi, on Oct 14 2008, 04:33 PM, said:

This is not security, it's paranoia. :ph34r:

Please change it.

GL

It is not that and if it is we will not change it. Why MSFN never been hacked? What you think?
Anyway, we run IPB v2.3.6

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Posted 14 October 2008 - 11:12 AM

xper, on Oct 14 2008, 06:02 PM, said:

It is not that and if it is we will not change it. Why MSFN never been hacked. What you think?
Anyway, we run IPB v2.3.6

Paranoia in a sense that it doesn't trust the user (or his browser).

My comment was directed to the authors of the software. It seems everybody is taking that route these days. Instead of securing a (comfortable) feature, they toss it away altogether.

But you're the boss.

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#14 cluberti

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Posted 14 October 2008 - 12:47 PM

So, is session expiration set or is it not? It is a somewhat frustrating problem, because it'll happen whilst I am posting a response, say. I get an error that I'm not logged in, and I have to log back in and paste my response (I now know to copy and paste EVERYTHING before hitting "reply", just in case!).