Cannot be logged in as user and sysop at the same time
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	valhallasw
	May 11 2014, 2:54 PM

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e.g.

user-config.py:

usernames['wikipedia']['nl'] = 'valhallasw-botje'
sysopnames['wikipedia']['nl'] = 'valhallasw'

test.py
import pywikibot
s = pywikibot.Site()
s.login(False) # as user, asks for password
s.login(True) # as sysop, asks for password, *overwrites* cookies (!)
s.login(False) # as users, asks for password *again*

It should be possible to switch between sysop and bot accounts in a script without requiring the user to enter the password every time

Version: core-(2.0)
Severity: normal
See Also:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55066
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69283

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Reference: bz65196

	Subject	Repo	Branch	Lines +/-
	Multi-session cookie jar	pywikibot/core	master	+158 -21

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• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Needs Triage.Nov 22 2014, 3:19 AM

• bzimport added a project: Pywikibot-General.

• bzimport set Reference to bz65196.

• bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (????).

valhallasw created this task.May 11 2014, 2:54 PM

Aklapper added a project: Pywikibot.Nov 27 2014, 4:15 PM

jayvdb added a project: Pywikibot-login.py.Feb 9 2015, 4:25 AM

jayvdb set Security to None.

Those are different usernames.

In T67196#1024147, @Mjbmr wrote:

Those are different usernames.

Indeed. This task is exactly about storing the session cookies for different accounts at the same time.
See also T71283: dualism between user and sysop needs to be overtaken

There are different options to solve this:

Caching password, which might still have problems with logging in different script which are sharing same cookie file, which each script have to log in again.
We can use different cookie files for each user on each site, might people don't know about limiting permissions. also have to do a base64 encode on usernames in case file system might not accept a username as a file name.
Writing cookies in different sections on the file, but still have conflict as I described in the number one.
Can use SQlite as a cookie database.

Change 189653 had a related patch set uploaded (by Mjbmr):
Separate cookie storage per user/project ( dataset using sqlite3)

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/189653

Patch-For-Review

Change 189653 had a related patch set uploaded (by John Vandenberg):
Separate cookie storage per user/project

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/189653

Patch-For-Review

jayvdb mentioned this in T57140: force login after performing a sysop action.Feb 20 2015, 5:31 AM

jayvdb mentioned this in T71283: dualism between user and sysop needs to be overtaken.May 8 2015, 3:51 AM

Change 209873 had a related patch set uploaded (by John Vandenberg):
Multi-session cookie jar

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/209873

JAnD mentioned this in T114807: Editing as sysop doesn't work.Mar 29 2016, 7:29 AM

Edgars2007 subscribed.Aug 16 2016, 2:26 PM

Change 209873 abandoned by Multichill:
Multi-session cookie jar

Reason:
No response. This can always be re-opened if you plan to work on it again.

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/209873

Xqt moved this task from Backlog to Needs Review on the Pywikibot board.Feb 3 2019, 11:25 AM

Xqt triaged this task as Lowest priority.Feb 7 2019, 4:10 PM

Xqt assigned this task to jayvdb.Feb 7 2019, 4:22 PM

Dvorapa added a subtask: T71283: dualism between user and sysop needs to be overtaken.Mar 28 2019, 6:06 PM

The dualism has been given up

Xqt closed subtask T71283: dualism between user and sysop needs to be overtaken as Resolved.Feb 13 2024, 4:58 PM

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