Eric, when you encountered the initial problem, which browser and version
were you using? Were/are you able to replicate the problem using a different
browser?

I recently had a similar cookies-related issue on Firefox 3.6 that turned
out to be a plugin problem.

Just curiousŠ

Jeff

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> From: Otto <[email protected]>
> Reply-To: <[email protected]>
> Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2010 17:00:10 -0600
> To: <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [wp-testers] Cannot log out
> 
> Whether you're logged in or not has to do with what cookies your
> browser has. Sometimes, browsers can get "stuck" and won't delete
> cookies even when the website is telling them to do so. I don't know
> what causes it.
> 
> -Otto
> 
> 
> 
> On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 4:46 PM, Eric Mann <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Otto,
>> 
>> That seemed to have fixed the problem.  But what do you think was the
>> original cause?
>> 
>> On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Otto <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Try clearing your browser cookies. That will definitely log you out.
>>> Then log back in and see if logout works.
>>> 
>>> -Otto
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 4:32 PM, Eric Mann <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> I'm running the latest nightly on a multisite installation using the MU
>>>> Domain Mapping plug-in to run my different site on separate domains.  For
>>>> those of you interested, I'm using the "Remote Login" and "Redirect
>>>> administration pages to site's original domain" options so that I only
>>> have
>>>> to sign on once in the network but can stay logged in between sites.
>>>> 
>>>> Today, I noticed that I'm unable to log out of the system.  Here's the
>>>> process I took:
>>>> 
>>>> From the dashboard page of my "Network Dashboard" site (
>>>> http://beta.eamann.com/wp-admin/index.php) I clicked "Logout" in the
>>> upper
>>>> right corner.
>>>> 
>>>> The site loads the logout page (
>>>> 
>>> http://beta.eamann.com/wp-login.php?action=logout&amp;_wpnonce=1592adb6da
>>> ).
>>>> 
>>>> Then redirects to the login page (
>>>> http://beta.eamann.com/wp-login.php?loggedout=true).
>>>> 
>>>> Then redirects back to the dashboard *and keeps me logged in!*
>>>> *
>>>> *
>>>> I tried this again on each of the sites in my network, and ran into the
>>> same
>>>> exact problem: clicking logout did not actually log me out.  It ran
>>> through
>>>> the usual steps, but left me logged in as an administrator and let me
>>>> continue accessing all of my sites.
>>>> 
>>>> My concern now is accessing my site from public computers.  Without being
>>>> able to log out, I might be leaving admin-level access available to
>>> anyone
>>>> who knows how to read the browser history on the machine.
>>>> 
>>>> Ideas?  Can anyone reproduce and confirm this?
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