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Persistent login on multiple computers
« on: March 03, 2009, 05:26:14 PM »
It seems as if the persistent login does not work from multiple computers.  Everytime you switch to a different computer and login, if you go back to your original computer you will need to relog.  Is this something that can be fixed?  I login at work and at home.  If login at work then I need to relogin at home and vice versa.  It becomes a vicioous cycle essentially negating the persistent login feature.
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Re: Persistent login on multiple computers
« Reply #1 on: March 04, 2009, 05:33:26 PM »
Yes,

I see what you mean, before the change to this Joomla/phpBB3 combination I used simple cookies to determine valid and persistant sessions, handy, but not the most secure way of safe-guarding sessions.

Now with this dual-login model, sessions and authentication are handled by the forum software, so , in order to be able to relax security a bit I would need to make some changes to this page.[attachment=0:2y1scykv]<!-- ia0 -->part-security.png<!-- ia0 -->[/attachment:2y1scykv]

not sure where yet ;)
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Re: Persistent login on multiple computers
« Reply #2 on: March 05, 2009, 06:50:27 PM »
I would assume it is the Session IP validation.  But thats just a guess.  The only drawback to that is you may lose the ability to Ban an IP range.  But not sure.
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Re: Persistent login on multiple computers
« Reply #3 on: March 05, 2009, 08:31:49 PM »
I will have a play with these settings and see what we get
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Re: Persistent login on multiple computers
« Reply #4 on: March 05, 2009, 08:37:39 PM »
Hi Xerces I have made a few adjustments, try it now and let me know if it's any better
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Re: Persistent login on multiple computers
« Reply #5 on: March 07, 2009, 12:25:18 AM »
Whatever you changed seems to have fixed it. :) Thanks
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Re: Persistent login on multiple computers
« Reply #6 on: March 07, 2009, 04:13:18 AM »
Great glad it sorted it out :)

Have you seen the blogs section yet
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Re: Persistent login on multiple computers
« Reply #7 on: March 09, 2009, 09:56:17 PM »
I looked at it but doubt it is something I will really use.  I dont have time to play my games let alone blog about them...
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Re: Persistent login on multiple computers
« Reply #8 on: March 09, 2009, 10:23:00 PM »
I must admit I know the feeling :)
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Re: Persistent login on multiple computers
« Reply #9 on: March 10, 2009, 01:27:19 PM »
So.. about that Personal skills upload page... :)

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Re: Persistent login on multiple computers
« Reply #10 on: March 10, 2009, 01:32:16 PM »
One other annoying thing.  Drop down boxes do not work properly in IE7.  I dont know if this is restricted to IE7 or not as I havent had a chance to test other browsers.  When you click on the dropdown and try to mouse over the values contained within the values disappear.  The only way I have been able to switch any drop down value is by selecting the box and then using up and down arrows.
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Re: Persistent login on multiple computers
« Reply #11 on: March 10, 2009, 02:33:14 PM »
Hi Xerces,

Yes it is specific to IE7, IE8 Beta2  it works fine with Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera and Safari

Personal skills upload page is on its way :) (Had a major crash and ended up changing motherboards plus added a new C:drive(SATA) ) so in the process of reinstalling everything again :( trying to get PHP, Apache and MySQL playing nice together again
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Re: Persistent login on multiple computers
« Reply #12 on: March 10, 2009, 03:26:08 PM »
Eww..  I hated getting all that set up years ago.  Hopefully they have made it easier.  Good luck...
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Re: Persistent login on multiple computers
« Reply #13 on: March 10, 2009, 03:52:24 PM »
No there is a problem in the Joomla session somewhere.  I just updated to IE8 RC1 and the problem still exists.  There is not an issue with dropdowns in PHPBB just on the Joomla site.
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Re: Persistent login on multiple computers
« Reply #14 on: March 10, 2009, 07:42:03 PM »
Hi again Xerces :)

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Eww.. I hated getting all that set up years ago. Hopefully they have made it easier. Good luck...

Sadly not , however I have now got them working and just reinstalled Dreamweaver

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No there is a problem in the Joomla session somewhere.  I just updated to IE8 RC1 and the problem still exists.  There is not an issue with dropdowns in PHPBB just on the Joomla site.

Yes there is a problem with both IE7 and IE8, there is a fix that involves adding some IE specific entries to the main css files the fix is already included in the phpBB3 software but not in that particular template for joomla, I will have a look at it, it does work fine with standards compliant browsers like FF, Opera, Google Chrome and Safari
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