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A user of our forum has just reported something that I have experienced myself. USER1 wrote, "Is it just me, or is anyone else getting cryptic greetings on the main page before logging in. Like just this morning, it called me 'USER2' (Welcome back … etc.)."
I have had the same experience, where when returning to the site and being no longer logged in because of a login timeout, the site welcomes me back as a different user -- one that has never logged into that browser or this computer. The user is a subscriber, non-admin. It seems to be the same user every time.
I have now disabled "Store guest information in a cookie for subsequent visits" in hopes of avoiding the problem.
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I am not really sure how that can be possible. A cookie can only be written to the computer the user is actually using and it is sent back to the server by that computer as part of the http request. One user on any website is unaware and strictly partitioned from any other user/. It is just not possible to write a cookie from one users session to another users session...
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If that's impossible, then something else is happening. It is indeed greeting a user who isn't me when I let my login timeout and then relaunch the browser. Feel free to login as a subscriber and see if it does the same for you: http://www.waywordradio.org/discussion/
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As expected it just says 'guest'.
It will hang on to a 'guest' cookie for a year. I have one on my machine which I use for testing purposes when I want to visit the forum but not be logged in.
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So it works for you. Why does mine show another user's name?
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the cookie would be on that persons computer, not someone else... have you cleared all your cookies?
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