Logged in User Stays Logged In

Hello,

Yes, but it adds the person to the forum database so they are technically logged in to it... it even says their username at the top of the forum. Is there an easy way to log them out when someone else logs in on my site on the same computer - like a function I can call?

I'm trying to find out if a person is on your forum, navigates away to another site, or whatever, then another person sits down at that same computer and goes to my website to log in, is there a script I can run that will make sure the previous person is logged out of the forum? Whatever cookies are placed on the computer leave the first person logged in (if they selected that option) even if I use the session variables and pass the forum a new username and password.

Session state is tied to the instance of the browser.
Child windows or new browsers started while the original or any of it's children are active also inherit the session state.

Most web servers have a default session timeout of 20 minutes of inactivity for a site - regardless of if you are actually on the site at the moment.

You can adjust the length of time a session is active by either changing the iis defaults or including session.timeout = xx in your asp code, Where xx is the number of minutes. Set it tor low, and people won't have time to read and reply to posts.

You can terminate a session by...

• Performing no activity on the site for the length of time required for the session to time out.
• Using session.abandon in your asp code to terminate all the session variables (this is what the logout button does).
• Closing all browser windows and starting a new browser instance.

Edited by dpyers - 06 July 2006 at 2:08pm