Logout button does nothing

Steve Pole

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Sep 27, 2006, 9:34:37 PM9/27/06

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Hi all,

when a user is logged into Trac and hits the 'Logout' button, nothing happens, the user just stays logged in.

This is not really a major issue as it does not prevent anyone from doing anything, but it gives those in the company who are against Trac a reason not to use it (security issue bla bla bla). IMO, it should just work, because what would the logout button be there for otherwise ?!?.

TIA,

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Kenneth Gonsalves

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Sep 27, 2006, 9:54:05 PM9/27/06

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On 28-Sep-06, at 7:04 AM, Steve Pole wrote:

> when a user is logged into Trac and hits the 'Logout' button,
> nothing happens, the user just stays logged in.

works for me

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Alistair Campbell

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Sep 27, 2006, 9:52:32 PM9/27/06

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This issue is due to the browser caching authentication information on
the behalf of the user. Unless the mechanism has been changed in more
recent versions of trac, I'd imagine this is still the case.

Sid Wiesner

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Sep 27, 2006, 9:56:40 PM9/27/06

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Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
> On 28-Sep-06, at 7:04 AM, Steve Pole wrote:
>
>> when a user is logged into Trac and hits the 'Logout' button,
>> nothing happens, the user just stays logged in.
>
> works for me

This is a known problem. To really logout, you'll need to close the
browser.

The Trac roadmap currently lists the fix for this as happening in the
0.12 release.

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z00m1n

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Sep 27, 2006, 10:14:24 PM9/27/06

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Thanks for the info, I am happy to wait for a fix to come in with a
later update.

If this is a known problem, why couldn't I find anything in this group
searching for 'log out', logout ? What resources should I tap in the
future before asking here ?

CU z00m1n

Sid Wiesner

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Sep 27, 2006, 10:24:54 PM9/27/06

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z00m1n wrote:
> If this is a known problem, why couldn't I find anything in this group
> searching for 'log out', logout ? What resources should I tap in the
> future before asking here ?

This list was just recently moved to googlegroups, so the archives on
google only go back 1 month. If you want to access the archives from
the previous list address, try searching here:

http://dir.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.subversion.trac.general

Sid