[pubcookie-dev] Re: Clearing Username on logout

[Jon Miner]

Any thoughts on what I should do with "Case 3"
(LOGOUT_ACTION_CLEAR_L_NO_APP)?

Should I change that section to default the other way, but be configured
by the same statement?  Or should I leave it alone?

jon

* Nathan Dors (dors at cac.washington.edu) [060609 14:34]:
> Agreed. Add it in and I'll verify it works as expected.
> 
> -Nathan
> 
> 
> On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, Jon Miner wrote:
> 
> >We already have static_user_field disabled, the issue really is that if
> >the previous user doesn't close the browser, they don't want to see the
> >username of the previous person.
> >
> >We can't force people to always do the right thing, and the interest
> >here is to at least help out that way.  Like you say, it's just a site
> >policy.
> >
> >jon
> >
> >* Nathan Dors (dors at cac.washington.edu) [060609 14:01]:
> >>FWIW, the static_user_field site policy applies to the editability
> >>of the userid. Not user if it's 3 options would help here:
> >>
> >>http://www.pubcookie.org/docs/config.html#static_user_field
> >>
> >>In general, our preference/policy is to impose a single identity
> >>per browsing session. So, even though our portal invokes
> >>LOGOUT_ACTION_CLEAR_L on logout, users must close their browser to
> >>change identities. For the rare occasion when someone is in a jam,
> >>we offer the CLEAR_L_NO_APP logout end-point on our login server,
> >>but they have to find the URL thru our end-user help site.
> >>
> >>Anyway, your clear_username_at_logout site policy seems like a
> >>reasonable option. The default should keep the current behavior
> >>though, huh.
> >>
> >>-Nathan
> >
> >-- 
> >.Jonathan J. Miner------------------Division of Information Technology.
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> >It won't be covered in the book.  The source code has to be useful for
> >something, after all...  :-)
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> >                                                             (82/721)
> >

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.Jonathan J. Miner------------------Division of Information Technology.
|miner at doit.wisc.edu                 University Of Wisconsin - Madison|
|608/262.9655                               Room 3146 Computer Science|
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