[wp-testers] Cannot log out

Otto otto at ottodestruct.com
Sat Nov 20 22:41:13 UTC 2010


Try clearing your browser cookies. That will definitely log you out.
Then log back in and see if logout works.

-Otto



On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 4:32 PM, Eric Mann <eric at eam.me> wrote:
> I'm running the latest nightly on a multisite installation using the MU
> Domain Mapping plug-in to run my different site on separate domains.  For
> those of you interested, I'm using the "Remote Login" and "Redirect
> administration pages to site's original domain" options so that I only have
> to sign on once in the network but can stay logged in between sites.
>
> Today, I noticed that I'm unable to log out of the system.  Here's the
> process I took:
>
> From the dashboard page of my "Network Dashboard" site (
> http://beta.eamann.com/wp-admin/index.php) I clicked "Logout" in the upper
> right corner.
>
> The site loads the logout page (
> http://beta.eamann.com/wp-login.php?action=logout&amp;_wpnonce=1592adb6da).
>
> Then redirects to the login page (
> http://beta.eamann.com/wp-login.php?loggedout=true).
>
> Then redirects back to the dashboard *and keeps me logged in!*
> *
> *
> I tried this again on each of the sites in my network, and ran into the same
> exact problem: clicking logout did not actually log me out.  It ran through
> the usual steps, but left me logged in as an administrator and let me
> continue accessing all of my sites.
>
> My concern now is accessing my site from public computers.  Without being
> able to log out, I might be leaving admin-level access available to anyone
> who knows how to read the browser history on the machine.
>
> Ideas?  Can anyone reproduce and confirm this?
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