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Constantly getting logged out
« on: February 15, 2011, 08:42:24 AM »
Has anyone else been getting logged out of the forums constantly?  I access the forums from 2 or 3 different computers throughout the day and everytime I switch a computer I have to log in again.  I used to always be logged in whereever I was.  What changed?
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Re: Constantly getting logged out
« Reply #1 on: February 15, 2011, 08:48:10 AM »
Nothing.
You aren't the only one experiencing it but I have yet to recreate the issue.
I stay logged in across 3 machines.

UPDATE: I was just taking a peek at FireFox version numbers... I am running 3.6.13 on my machines... Could be a FireFox thing?
« Last Edit: February 15, 2011, 08:54:29 AM by The Shoctor »

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Re: Constantly getting logged out
« Reply #2 on: February 15, 2011, 08:54:47 AM »
Yeah, I have not experienced this unless I access them from a machine I never accessed them from before...for obvious reasons.
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Re: Constantly getting logged out
« Reply #3 on: February 15, 2011, 09:04:20 AM »
UPDATE!

Well, it looks like there is a bot out in the wild brute forcing SMF Passwords... And as it tries (and fails) it revokes your current logon... I am guessing this doesn't happen to me because my display name is different than my logon name.

http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=415892.0

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Re: Constantly getting logged out
« Reply #4 on: February 15, 2011, 09:41:07 AM »
I am guessing this doesn't happen to me because my display name is different than my logon name.

I think that's why it doesn't happen to me either.
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Re: Constantly getting logged out
« Reply #5 on: February 15, 2011, 10:24:32 AM »
Well from what I read on there it seems that they decided to use a mod to force using email addresses for login and that seems to have stopped the bot dead.
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Re: Constantly getting logged out
« Reply #6 on: February 15, 2011, 10:34:26 AM »
The thing I am afraid of with installing that mod it will break the social logon. And being so close to an event it could break things worse than just having to logon again.

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Re: Constantly getting logged out
« Reply #7 on: February 15, 2011, 10:45:00 AM »
Weird, it just happened to me....
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Re: Constantly getting logged out
« Reply #8 on: February 15, 2011, 11:01:08 AM »
Interesting. Yours might be something different. Your account wasn't logged as bad password attempted.

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Re: Constantly getting logged out
« Reply #9 on: February 15, 2011, 11:09:15 AM »
Whatever it is, it's hitting me. Not that it's a problem, but yeah.
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Re: Constantly getting logged out
« Reply #10 on: February 15, 2011, 12:22:59 PM »
I can confirm it's happening to me with Chrome. I thought it was a Chrome thing because I just recently started using it as my main browser.

I'd say let's just deal with it for now as it's only being a nuisance and not a true security risk. We can try to implement that mod after the LAN.

Edit: As a workaround for the time being, you could always change your display name slightly, as I have here. That should buy you some time.
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Re: Constantly getting logged out
« Reply #11 on: February 15, 2011, 12:23:22 PM »
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Added to .htaccess... HOPEFULLY it will slow them down just a little. I will dog ear the log to see if I catch more moving forward. If it stays bad I will add the mod to logon by email address after the event. SMF as a whole needs an update too, but last time I did that it broke the store and made more work for me. ;)

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Re: Constantly getting logged out
« Reply #12 on: February 15, 2011, 01:08:52 PM »
I miss the store.
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Re: Constantly getting logged out
« Reply #13 on: February 15, 2011, 01:16:52 PM »
The store?

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Re: Constantly getting logged out
« Reply #14 on: February 15, 2011, 02:07:49 PM »
I can confirm it's happening to me with Chrome. I thought it was a Chrome thing because I just recently started using it as my main browser.

I'd say let's just deal with it for now as it's only being a nuisance and not a true security risk. We can try to implement that mod after the LAN.

Edit: As a workaround for the time being, you could always change your display name slightly, as I have here. That should buy you some time.
I decided to do the same thing as well.  Hopefully it will quit now that my name is changed.
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