Questions tagged [auto-login]
For questions regarding the old feature which automatically logs you back into a site if you've already registered on it and have authenticated with the network.
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(Excessive) login prompt expects my old email even though it's long changed [duplicate]
I opened a superuser.com link today, and found myself not-logged-in. Already a bit suspicious. Anyway, I enter my email and password at the login prompt - and it fails. I enter my old email, which ...
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Log in problem via GitHub
Generally I log into https://stackoverflow.com/ via GitHub, and I can access all my Stack Exchange network sites. I do not need to log in to all Stack Exchange network sites separately. But this thing ...
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Does SO's still use localStorage to auto-login users? [duplicate]
I was searching about how SO authenticate and manage users sessions across multiple sites/domain and found this question from 2010:
How does SO's new auto-login feature work?
However, I didn't ...
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Stack Overflow doesn't recognise my Ask Ubuntu login
Suddenly, today, Stack Overflow is asking me to log in. I have an Ask Ubuntu account linked to my Launchpad account.
I can log into Ask Ubuntu OK, and then I can go to anywhere in the network, ...
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Does Universal Login not provide single sign-on recently?
I am a member of a number of Stack Exchange sites. Recently I seem to have gotten logged out from a number of them (Server Fault, Super User) and I can't figure out a way to log in without scrounging ...
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Network Login Troubleshooting fails on Messaging whereas Caniuse.com tests positive
A couple of months ago, I was forced to switch to the Vivaldi browser which I do happen to like a lot.
The Vivaldi browser might be considered the spiritual successor to the Opera browser, sharing ...
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How does stackoverflow detect whether i'm a logged in user? [duplicate]
So when I enter https://stackoverflow.com/, I don't see anything on XHR. How on earth does the server know who I am? :)
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Why is logon not automatic when coming from Stack Overflow via the Stack Exchange menu dropdown? [duplicate]
As logged on in Stack Overflow and clicking the Stack Exchange dropdown (top of window client area, far left) my expectation was to be automatically logged in to Server Fault...
That ...
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Some site seems not share the stackoverflow cookies, I have to login one by one [duplicate]
It is weird only happen on chrome at home.
At company, it does share the login session/cookies.
After I login stackoverflow, only stackexchange.com can recognize the cookies. But askubuntu , ...
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How does SO's new auto-login feature work without any refresh?
How does SO's new auto-login feature work?
The above link talks about how auto login is implemented in SO. Answer to that post points to this solution.
Is there a new auto-login feature?
Now ...
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Why do Stack Exchange sites seem to always forget my login?
It seems that all Stack Exchange sites do seem to be affected by a UX killing behaviour: it seems that every day you have to login again on each of them; they never remember your login.
For someone ...
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Currently some Meta sites do not allow me to login
This started happening a couple of days ago. When navigating to the Information Security Meta page (after being logged into InfoSec) I'm greeted with the Sign Up and Login buttons. If I click Login ...
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Active login not recognized on Super User
While on other Stack Exchange sites like Game Development and Code Review they recognize if I am logged in to Stack Overflow or Stack Exchange and after refresh request from page I am logged in there ...
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Auto-login to private beta redirects to the home page
I had an inbox notification telling me of a comment reply on Portuguese Language Meta. I had not yet logged into Portuguese.SE or its meta on that particular browser instance. When I clicked on the ...
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Don't show the "How does SE work" banner to users who have accounts on other sites
When visiting a site where a user doesn't have an account, the "How does SE work" 1 banner doesn't really need to be shown to users who have accounts on other sites. If you've been on the network for ...
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