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If I select "Keep Me Signed In" why do I have to sign in again

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Posted by JoeinPA on Monday, January 10, 2022 2:54 PM

Rich:

I signed up for the new package when it first came out and after the initial "getting used to" period I no longer had to log in each time. I recently upgraded to Windows 11 with the same results. This morning I was asked to log in for the first time in months. It may well be as Overmod suggests - a security issue.

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Posted by richhotrain on Monday, January 10, 2022 8:14 AM

Overmod

Note that Kalmbach does periodically require a re-login, for security-related reasons. 

This cannot be universally true because I use a laptop with a Windows 10 operating system and a Microsoft Edge browser. I have used an automatic login for years, and I have never been required to re-login.

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Posted by Overmod on Monday, January 10, 2022 7:04 AM

The reported issue is a client-side setting, probably as noted that he's either clearing cookies or using some sort of private-browsing setting.  The login 'credential' is set via cookies, which are likely persistent if the 'keep me logged in' is checked.

Note that Kalmbach does periodically require a re-login, for security-related reasons.  I think I would do this a little more frequently than they do, but I'm not second-guessing.

The no-log-out situation has appeared a couple of times and appears to be the result of tinkering with the back-end security management so it ignores or can't read or set cookie information.  It has always gotten corrected when IT eventually gets its round tuit.

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Posted by FRRYKid on Monday, January 10, 2022 3:25 AM

Just to put my My 2 Cents in and in the opposite direction, the only device that I can even log in on is my all in one tablet and only in the Chrome browser. (Yes I have tried it in Firefox.) I don't have to relog in on that browser either. I have tried to log in on the house desktop (in both Firefox and CHrome) and also on my phone. The system keeps giving me the same log in screen in all cases. Go figure.

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Posted by Track fiddler on Sunday, January 9, 2022 2:26 PM

Never tried to log out before, just always had to log back in after I clear files.

I tried to log out just now to see, .....NOPE, your right, it don't work.

 

 

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Posted by PennCentral99 on Sunday, January 9, 2022 11:56 AM

Doesn't it make a different the browser you use and from where you access MR?

I don't believe so. I was using Chrome, thought using FireFox would solve issue. Nope, still can't log out on either browser.

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Posted by kasskaboose on Sunday, January 9, 2022 11:40 AM

Doesn't it make a different the browser you use and from where you access MR?

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Posted by traintravler on Sunday, January 9, 2022 11:25 AM

dknelson

 

 
sandusky

I select "keep me signed in" and it works for about a day before I am directed to sign in again. What gives?

 

 

 
First you have to turn around three times in a clockwise direction.  Like a dog before lying down in its basket. 
 
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I thought it was put your caboose in, take your caboose out And ride it around and that's how we do the caboose hoki poki, then spin around 2 times clock wise, 4 times counter close wise, the sacrifice out engines.

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Posted by Track fiddler on Sunday, January 9, 2022 11:16 AM

Laugh

They do that, don't they Dave? Laugh

I don't know if a phone is different than a computer.  My stay signed in function works here until I clear all the cache and temporary files.  Then I have to re-sign in every time and it's the same on other sites as well.

 

 

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Posted by dknelson on Sunday, January 9, 2022 10:45 AM

sandusky

I select "keep me signed in" and it works for about a day before I am directed to sign in again. What gives?

 

 
First you have to turn around three times in a clockwise direction.  Like a dog before lying down in its basket. 
 
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Posted by mbinsewi on Sunday, January 9, 2022 9:54 AM

rrebell
Even MRH has had issues and they are all new tech but tried to be all things to all people and to really put the final nail in, free content has greatly expanded.

I haven't been there in a while, it sure has changed!

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Posted by JDawg on Sunday, January 9, 2022 9:20 AM

rrebell

It's broken like lots of other things.

 

 

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Posted by rrebell on Sunday, January 9, 2022 8:46 AM

Yea, when the times started to change, companys like Kalmbach did not change operations fast enough and the change happened fairly slowly too. Even MRH has had issues and they are all new tech but tried to be all things to all people and to really put the final nail in, free content has greatly expanded.

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Posted by riogrande5761 on Sunday, January 9, 2022 8:19 AM

richhotrain
 
sandusky

I select "keep me signed in" and it works for about a day before I am directed to sign in again. What gives?  

 

Just one more issue with the forum sofware. Grumpy 

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Posted by richhotrain on Saturday, January 8, 2022 10:00 PM

sandusky

I select "keep me signed in" and it works for about a day before I am directed to sign in again. What gives? 

Just one more issue with the forum sofware. Grumpy

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Posted by rrebell on Saturday, January 8, 2022 8:22 PM

It's broken like lots of other things.

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Posted by sandusky on Saturday, January 8, 2022 7:30 PM

Not that I know of, and happens on no other sites.

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Posted by PennCentral99 on Saturday, January 8, 2022 6:48 PM

Funny, for some of us, the problem is the direct opposite. Clicking "log out" does nothing, it still keeps you logged in.

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Posted by CNR378 on Saturday, January 8, 2022 6:12 PM

Probaly a setting in your browser. Does it clear your cache or cookies when you shut it down?

I've been logged in for several days.

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If I select "Keep Me Signed In" why do I have to sign in again
Posted by sandusky on Saturday, January 8, 2022 6:02 PM

I select "keep me signed in" and it works for about a day before I am directed to sign in again. What gives?

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