Users randomly get a notification saying they've been banned. This disappears once they clear their browser cookies and cache. It must then be a cookie thing. what I now want to know is what could possibly make the MyBB system to assume a user has been banned (based on thebrowser cookies or cache)?
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Hovatek Blog runs on the same server and has no such cookie issues
Cookies are used to store the current session id and user id. Group membership is stored in the database. Membership in a group marked as a "banned" group means that user is considered banned.
(2015-10-05, 06:58 PM)laie_techie Wrote: [ -> ]Cookies are used to store the current session id and user id. Group membership is stored in the database. Membership in a group marked as a "banned" group means that user is considered banned.
how then does the session and user id possibly result in a ban notification whereas the person is not on the banned list in the database?
(2015-10-05, 09:31 PM)Hovatek Wrote: [ -> ] (2015-10-05, 06:58 PM)laie_techie Wrote: [ -> ]Cookies are used to store the current session id and user id. Group membership is stored in the database. Membership in a group marked as a "banned" group means that user is considered banned.
how then does the session and user id possibly result in a ban notification whereas the person is not on the banned list in the database?
What plugins do you have installed? I have never heard of this bug in core code.