[Wikimedia-l] Questions about the login

[Tyler Romeo]

On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 10:41 AM, David Cuenca <dacuetu at gmail.com> wrote:

> 1) Is there any way to know if I have other sessions open and close them
> (like in Gmail)? I used another computer and I don't remember if Iogged
> out.
>

Not yet. There is an extension Extension:SecureSessions that implements
this, and hopefully will be deployed in the future (it's not ready for
deployment yet, since it needs more development).

On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 10:45 AM, James Alexander <jalexander at wikimedia.org>
 wrote:

> Not a perfect answer for this but my understanding of the way the sessions
> work at the moment is that you can force other sessions closed by logging
> out. If you log out in one place you will be logged out in all places (this
> remembering is dredged up from a discussion months ago but I just tested it
> and it does seem to hold true :) ). Obviously that doesn't help the 'see if
> you have other sessions' problem but if you are ever concerned could work
> well. It still means you can log IN to multiple sites just once you click
> log out it ends all sessions.
>
>
Also not (entirely) accurate. In MediaWiki core, logging out will only
clear your current session, not all sessions. Only in CentralAuth will
logging out do such a thing. Why such functionality exists and is in
contrast to core functionality is beyond me.

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*Tyler Romeo*
Stevens Institute of Technology, Class of 2016
Major in Computer Science
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