I am using Firefox 4 and I need to login every time I visit the forums. I don’t think that this will be a difficult bug to tackle with.
It’s not a bug
It’s normal in this forum.
I haven’t tried staying logged in, but there is a setting in Firefox to quit active Logins at shutdown under Preferences > Privacy > History > Clear history when Firefox closes which is visible if you use custom settings for history.
Regardless of that setting as caf4926 states it is normal for this forum. So I take that to mean you will be logged out.
On 05/30/2011 06:36 PM, hcvv wrote:
> And look here: ‘Can we PLEASE have a “keep me loggin in” option?’
> (http://tinyurl.com/3pcw3y2).
we have to break the chain, the iChain!
or everyone could just use nntp, i almost never log in…
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It is interesting how many places log me in automatically, GMail, Facebook, Twitter, Ubuntu forums, any of the StackExchange sites. Protecting access to this forum account is far less important than most of those. Is there something important that is being protected? People logging in under my name and asking stupid questions or giving wrong answers?
On Fri, 02 Mar 2012 18:46:02 +0000, sadastronaut wrote:
> Is there something important that is being protected
Your login here also is used to access Novell Customer Center, which
contains sensitive customer information and product licenses for Novell
and SUSE products.
Jim
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openSUSE Forums Administrator
Forum Use Terms & Conditions at http://tinyurl.com/openSUSE-T-C
> People logging in under my name and asking stupid questions
are you you right now, or are you ‘people’?
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What does DistroWatch write about YOU?: http://tinyurl.com/SUSEonDW
This (logging you out after X time) used to break the links on emailed notifications on threads you were following. We will see how it works under the new system. You would have to visit the forums, hit the log in, go through that. Then follow the link from the email which totally breaks what following the links are supposed to do; make it convenient to follow threads. It’s also supposed to not email you again unless you follow the URL in the email. I am sure that is broken currently though I could be wrong.
I am hoping the new log-in stops the behavior of logging you out after X time. Making it ’ convenient and safe ’ for business users makes it inconvenient for normal desktop users located at home.
On Sun, 04 Mar 2012 06:26:03 +0000, FlameBait wrote:
> I am hoping the new log-in stops the behavior of logging you out after X
> time. Making it ’ convenient and safe ’ for business users makes it
> inconvenient for normal desktop users located at home.
There still is a timeout, but I believe it’s set to 3 hours now - and the
configuration should be such that it doesn’t cause the kinds of issues it
caused in the past.
im
Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Administrator
Forum Use Terms & Conditions at http://tinyurl.com/openSUSE-T-C
Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Fri, 02 Mar 2012 18:46:02 +0000, sadastronaut wrote:
>
>> Is there something important that is being protected
>
> Your login here also is used to access Novell Customer Center, which
> contains sensitive customer information and product licenses for Novell
> and SUSE products.
But this is opensuse. I don’t have any commercial relationship with
Novell, and don’t have any product licences. Nor should they hold any
sensitive customer information related to me. I suspect many others are
in the same position. So I believe this is a seriously incorrect system
design, leading to a poor user experience for opensuse users.
On 2012-03-05 12:10, Dave Howorth wrote:
> Jim Henderson wrote:
> But this is opensuse. I don’t have any commercial relationship with
> Novell, and don’t have any product licences. Nor should they hold any
> sensitive customer information related to me. I suspect many others are
> in the same position. So I believe this is a seriously incorrect system
> design, leading to a poor user experience for opensuse users.
You don’t, but many do, and they host the forum.
The same login system is used for SUSE bugzillas, and these hold sensitive
information.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
On Mon, 05 Mar 2012 11:10:57 +0000, Dave Howorth wrote:
> But this is opensuse. I don’t have any commercial relationship with
> Novell, and don’t have any product licences. Nor should they hold any
> sensitive customer information related to me. I suspect many others are
> in the same position. So I believe this is a seriously incorrect system
> design, leading to a poor user experience for opensuse users.
As Carlos said, many do, and the login info is used for many other
systems, including Bugzilla.
The system design isn’t going to change.
Jim
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Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Administrator
Forum Use Terms & Conditions at http://tinyurl.com/openSUSE-T-C
Jim Henderson wrote:
> The system design isn’t going to change.
And I’ll continue not using the web interface … 
On Mon, 05 Mar 2012 16:38:38 +0000, Dave Howorth wrote:
> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> The system design isn’t going to change.
>
> And I’ll continue not using the web interface …
That’s fine - the NNTP interface is here for anyone to use.
Jim
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Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Administrator
Forum Use Terms & Conditions at http://tinyurl.com/openSUSE-T-C