[pmwiki-users] password requested only the first time

H. Fox haganfox at users.sourceforge.net
Tue Jul 24 16:52:46 CDT 2007


On 7/24/07, Prasad Burra <burrashiva at gmail.com> wrote:
> unless its a Publicly Accessible Computer and we forget to close ''all
> the browsers''

or use ?action=logout

> and we are off the table, then, its a security threat
> to the content.

If you're using a publicly-accessible computer it's better to log out
(request a page with ?action=logout in the query string) before
closing the browser.  Logging out clears the author cookie and closing
the browser (or letting your session expire by timing out) doesn't
clear the author cookie.

Hagan



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