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Stuart McHugh
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Oct 18, 2012 - 4:53 pm

I've actually got 2 forums, one I clean installed myself and it's working fine.

The second one (www.jockrock.org/forums since you ask) is a pretty large conversion from phpbb which has a lot of usernames (including several of my own).

Problem is that when I hit the login button I get up the name/password screen, but ok'ing it just takes me back to where I was - no error message, but I"m not logged in either (oddly, I was getting a similar problem on the phpbb board, surely unrelated?)

One odd thing is that it says "Welcome back admin Please log in to post". It says this in whatever browser I use, and I tried it on my phone - for the first time ever - and same message & result.

I even tried another username - subscriber only - and it has the same result, as it was when I created a brand new user.

I'm not sure if everyone can see the admin message or if it's just me - I'm also not sure of the relationship between SP and WP users, but my 'other' username's permissions look ok, should be able to login at least. (Not set up a new user yet, couldn't get any button to appear and was concerned there might be a security hole if this was a bad install or convert)

(There is one issue, I have some caching software in play which has caused some oddness. But that'd not explain the message or the fact it's on cookie-less browsers or new devices)

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Brandon
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Oct 18, 2012 - 7:55 pm

Stuart McHugh said (There is one issue, I have some caching software in play which has caused some oddness. But that'd not explain the message or the fact it's on cookie-less browsers or new devices)

I might if it is displaying a cached page. It probably would be worth a quick check by disabling any caching plugin and see what happens.

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Mr Papa
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Oct 18, 2012 - 8:27 pm

check your forum - options - member settings panel...  sounds like its remembering your user...  turn of the dont let users post as guest option...

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