Logout/Logoff

[mpsmith1903]

Hello there. Apologies if this has been asked before but had a good look through and could not see any posts on this. Question: where is the logoff button, or some setting to auto-logout of the webserver's config pages??

[Grimers]

Hi mpsmith1903,

Welcome to the Billion UK forum.

I'm slightly confused about what you're asking. Do you mean that you want to log out of the router pages? I think that's automatic as it always asks you to log in when you try to access any of the router's pages.

[mpsmith1903]

Hi there, tks - yes I do mean logging out of the router pages. There appears to be no "Logout" button I can see (am I being thick??!) nor is there a security setting of "autologout after x period of time" etc.

Reason concerned is having logged in, the next day I can still access the logged in router pages without any authentication! - a bit of a security risk ...

[mpsmith1903]

Update - it does seem that - at least on Chrome - that if you completely close the browser and ALL its separate windows, not just the router's tab, that authentication is reset. Still, would prefer a "logout" button - just seems right somehow.

[gatekeeper]

mpsmith,

This question has been discussed previously, a couple of times I think. I myself queried the lack of a Log Out feature quite a while ago.

It transpired that, in the later firmwares of the 8800 series, this feature was eliminated and instead the action was redesigned so that if you simply leave the 8800's graphical interface (the browser-style configuration settings that you see when you access via 192.168.1.254) there was no need to log in to it again during the same browsing session, even though you may have switched, in the interim, to other completely unrelated webpages, such as a website somewhere. This meant that there was no Log Out any more. In some circumstances this can be useful.

If you come out of the browser completely, and by 'browser' I mean your actual browser, not the 8800's GUI, then the next time you want to access the 8800's GUI you have to specifically log in to it with the default username and your specific password. Thus, an appropriate way of looking at it is that it's now 'browser session-dependent'.

I suspect that the reason you were able to get into the GUI a day later without having to log in to it was that you'd left your computer in a state the day before where you'd not come out of your browser. That itself is perhaps not good practise.

I agree that, in some ways, this lack of a fixed Log Out feature in the GUI gives rise to a possible security issue. For instance, if you were to go away from your computer without having exited from the browser, someone else, eg. a family member, could come along and gain access to the GUI. However, there are ways of preventing that that are unrelated to the router, and by just good practise when leaving your computer unattended.

I must admit I felt a bit uneasy when I first realised that logging out was now automatic and dependent on browser exit. Over time, however, I've got used to it and now feel more relaxed about it.

[mpsmith1903]

Tks for that - I'm getting used to it too! Cheers