Open Bug 813649 Opened 12 years ago Updated 12 years ago

Allow multiple simultaneous logins

Categories

(Bugzilla :: User Accounts, enhancement)

Product:
Bugzilla
Component:
User Accounts
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

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People

(Reporter: justdave, Unassigned)

Details

So... this is really an edge case, and the liklihood of anyone besides me needing this is pretty slim, but there are a few others out there that do it, so maybe... Use case: I have two Bugzilla accounts. I'm employed by Mozilla, so I use one account to keep track of bugs related to my job, and the other account to keep track of bugs related to Bugzilla (for which I'm the project leader, but it's not part of my job). I am constantly finding that I'm not logged in with the correct account. Thanks to CSRF tokens, logging out and back in in another tab when I realize I'm in the wrong account for a bug has become more difficult that it used to be. Google already does this and does a pretty good job of it. The idea is that you can log into more than one account at once, without logging out of the previous one. Bugzilla would keep track of your session, and know that the session belongs to both users. You would have a drop-down selector in your navigation header to choose which account is used for the actions you perform on that page. Perhaps on the edit bug page *if* you have multiple logins currently active, it would tell you which one is active next to the Submit button. Permissions would be handled as whatever user you're currently set to. Using an ajax call to switch would be nice, to avoid having to redo all your bug changes if you realize you're in the wrong account, although I can see that causing issues for CSRF tokens and permission-affected form fields. Maybe there's some way to deal with that.
Why don't you open several windows in your browser, one per account? I do this for my testing to avoid having to log out and log in all the time.
Bugzilla doesn't work that way. Login cookies affect all browser windows. If I log out in one it logs them all out.
(In reply to Dave Miller from comment #2) > Bugzilla doesn't work that way. Login cookies affect all browser windows. > If I log out in one it logs them all out. firefox --no-remote !!
(In reply to Frédéric Buclin from comment #3) > firefox --no-remote !! To be more precise, I'm logged in as root and myself on my machine, and so I have two independent sessions. --no-remote makes sure my two sessions are independent. :)
You run Firefox as root? :) Also, I'm on Mac. There's no concept of "--no-remote" on Mac.
i vote for wontfix; we're talking about a reasonably complex security-related change for an edge case, and one which is easily worked around with the browser. justdave, i use different profiles on my mac to do this, with a simple applescript applet on my dock to launch: do shell script "open -a /Applications/Firefox.app --args -P release -no-remote" (-no-remote appears to wfm on the mac)
+1 for wontfix
The problem is clicking links from email. I can't control which instance of Firefox the links will launch into when I click them.
If you were watching on IRC, my workaround is to run another copy of Thunderbird in a VM with another copy of Firefox. :)
Probably not worth it, but I think it'd still be cool to do. We have a tracker somewhere to tack on "wontfixed bugs that would make good extensions" or something? :)
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