Re: Recurrent "session expired" notices
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2010-05-08 19:54:04 GMT
On Saturday 08 May 2010 Malcolm wrote:
> I'm running ledgersmb 1.2.21 on Ubuntu 10.04. I frequently need to
> have two or more databases open in different tabs of my browser.
> Until recently, this did not seem to cause a problem. Now,
> however, whenever I switch from one tab to the other I get a
> "session expired" notice as soon as I try to do
> anything. Re-entering the password gets me back in, but when I
> switch back to the other tab the same thing occurs. This happens
> with Chrome, Firefox and Konqueror.
>
> If I open the databases in different browsers I can switch between
> them quite happily, which makes me think that a second session may
> be deleting or overwriting a cookie needed by the first session to
> remain active.
>
> Is there a fix for this, apart from collecting as many browsers as
> one needs databases opened simultaneously!
That is an interesting question. Personally, I would create separate
users on my Linux system and open browsers under those users to do
this. Here is the method I would use:
* Create a second, third, etcetera Linux user account(s).
* Login to my primary user account on the Linux system.
* Open Firefox and login to LedgerSMB as a user for a database I
designate(!) to be for my primary Linux user.
(! Mentally designate that is.)
* Open a terminal window such as xterm.
* Use "su - user2name" to login to my second user account. Where
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