clicking "logout" also logs me out of launchpad
Bug #498104 reported by
Philipp Kaluza
This bug affects 2 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Ubuntu One Servers |
Confirmed
|
High
|
Ubuntu One Foundations+ team |
Bug Description
When I am in the Ubuntu One web interface and click on "logout", I am logged out of all of launchpad. That is really annoying. All I expect this to do is to shut down the (OpenID-
In short: if you cannot provide true single-signon, don't provide single-sign-out. :-)
visibility: | private → public |
Changed in ubuntuone-servers: | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in ubuntuone-servers: | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
Changed in ubuntuone-servers: | |
assignee: | nobody → Ubuntu One Foundations+ team (uone-foundations) |
tags: | added: foundations+ |
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This may be a wontfix, or at least the fix involved is to provide an identity- provider about how long to persist the
option in canonical-
login.
The reason things work this way currently is because otherwise there
is a security issue on shared computers. If logging out of
one.ubuntu.com left you logged into launchpad, then the next person to
come along and attempt to access one.ubuntu.com would be able to login
without needing to re-enter their credentials (because the launchpad
cookie would be used).
-- /launchpad. net/~statik/
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