[support] Session problems

[Daniel Carrera]

I have some additional information from users:

The problem (being apparently logged as someone else) only appears to 
happen between users in the same location. Students are a school some 
times appear to be logged in as a different student. But when they go 
home, the site functions as it should.

If the problem is that sessions are not expiring and a new user comes in 
to the computer, that would explain why it only happens at school.

If the problem is that somehow Drupal or PHP is giving out session ids 
that have not expired yet, I'm not sure why hat should only happen 
between users in the same location. Is the session id based on the IP 
address? All users at the school would have the same IP. The school is 
even likely to be behind a proxy.

Does this give anyone any ideas as to what might be the root problem?

Thanks

Daniel.


Daniel Carrera wrote:
> Earnie Boyd wrote:
>> I see at http://drupal.org/node/188710 that you should also 
>> ini_set('session.use_only_cookies', 0); in the settings.php file.
> 
> 
> Thanks. I have to say that I don't really understand that option. I made 
> the change, but I don't understand what I just did.
> 
> Daniel.