[Trac] Changing users

[Emmanuel Blot]

This not a Firefox issue, AFAIK: this is the expected behaviour with
HTTP-based authentication. The same issue would arise with IE or any
browser.

It's not a Trac bug, but there've been a couple of discussions and
propositions to improve the authentication system on Trac, I guess a
'search' on ML and/or Trac bug db will give the hints.

Another alternaltive would be to replace HTTP authentication with
form-based authentication, which is now possible, I think, thanks to
the patch recently introduced, see #1855

> IMO this is a Firefox problem, not a TRAC problem.  Firefox is
> automatically re-submitting your old credentials.  Someone correct me if
> I'm wrong.
> 
> If this is a TRAC bug, I might take it on...
> 
> Curt
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: trac-bounces at lists.edgewall.com
> [mailto:trac-bounces at lists.edgewall.com] On Behalf Of Emmanuel Blot
> Sent: Thursday, August 25, 2005 5:52 AM
> To: trac at lists.edgewall.com
> Subject: Re: [Trac] Changing users
> 
> Untill this problem is fixed (I though it was, I need to check the
> current status), what you can easily do with Firefox is, once you've
> selected "logout", use the "Clear HTTP authentication" feature.
> 
> This will reset the authentication cache, so the next time you click
> on "login", and the web server request you for credentials, Firefox
> will not automatically send the last used credentials to the server
> (which is the cause of the "can't authenticate with another login"
> issue)
> 
> You can find the "Clear HTTP authentication" feature within the
> WebDeveloper toolbar, Miscelleanous menu (you can also find this from
> the Tools menu, if the toolbar is not visible)
> 
> The drawback is that if you're logged on other sites (or you local
> proxy) with the same HTTP-based authentication method in other
> tabs/windows, you'll need to re-submit the appropriate credentials.
> 
> On 8/25/05, Alain <alainm at pobox.com> wrote:
> > I am having problems re-login as a different user. I found 3 ticket
> > about something similar:
> >
> > Ticket #791: login/logout, authentication, and authorization
> > Ticket #1363: Ignore login when already logged in (fixed)
> > Changeset 1448: Allow accessing the /login and /logout... (closed)
> >
> > But this is not really the problem I have, then I must have something
> wrong!
> >
> > The problem is this: Once I login, then I logout, then I click login
> > again I am imediately logged as the last user. I have to close and
> > re-open the browser to log normaly again.
> >
> > I am using Trac 0.9 trunk, Mandrake Linux 10.0 and 10.2, FireFox 1.0
> and
> > 1.2.
> >
> > thanks,
> > Alain
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