By zoon_unit on

I've got a truly bizarre situation. I have a site that when I log out as admin, at first the logout seems successful, because the log in block is displayed. But as soon as I refresh, or try to visit another page, it shows me as still logged in, even if I reload.

If I revisit the page where I logged out, it still shows me as logged out, but every other page still shows me as logged in. (???)

I'm using the front_page and the tac_lite modules, and I suspect there's some strange interaction there, but I'm clueless as to what's really happening.

A search of Drupal.org shows that many other people suffer from login/logout problems, each one slightly different from the next.

Can someone explain the Drupal login/logout process? Can anyone shed light on this bizarre problem? Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

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prokopton’s picture

prokopton commented

I have the same problem, happened after I upgraded to 5.10.

I'm using front_page. When I logout, the first screen shows my admin login page but when I click on a feature it shows "Access denied."

I don't think it's 5.10 though because it happened about a day after the upgrade so I must have made changes that affected it.

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prokopton commented

I disabled caching (administer--> caching mode --> normal , 1 day). I disabled caching and the admin menu is gone when I logout as admin. Weird that this didn't happen before.

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Allthegearnoidea commented

Sorted out the problem for me on Firefox and Chrome too.

This had only just started happening for me even though I had caching on "normal" for the life of the site.

Incidentally took me a while to find caching as it's under Administer --> Performance --> Caching Mode

Thanks for posting the solution, though I'm not sure this is particularly satisfactory solution because what if you have a high load site?

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angelopc commented

I'm experiencing the same thing. I "logout" and receive an "access denied" message. Then I go to any other page and I'm still logged-in. It seems like it isn't happening in IE7, only Firefox.

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angelopc commented

My bad. Didn't see the previous post.

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