Isn't this why session.renew() was added?

On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 2:29 PM, Massimo Di Pierro <
massimo.dipie...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I will check and release a patch soon. Please do not discuss possible
> security issues on this mailing list. Report them to the developers
> directly.
>
>
> On Monday, 3 March 2014 02:06:05 UTC-6, Kiran Subbaraman wrote:
>>
>> I see this in 2.9.2 too (Just tested with the latest release)
>>
>> On Monday, March 3, 2014 1:25:14 PM UTC+5:30, Kiran Subbaraman wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>> I noticed this issue recently related to user session data.
>>> In my application I store some user specific session data, so that I do
>>> not have to hit the database everytime (now, am also looking at using
>>> the cache for that, instead of session).
>>> If userA is logged into the application, and then userA auth session
>>> expires, a login screen is presented. In case login is performed with
>>> userB's credentials, the session data from userA is still available, and
>>> is displayed on userB's screen.
>>>
>>> I have created a minimal app to demonstrate the issue that I see. Also
>>> take a look at the screenshots. Notice the session.userdata variable's
>>> value.
>>> Tested this on web2py 2.8.2, on Windows 8.
>>>
>>> This is my controller code:
>>> @auth.requires_login()
>>> def index():
>>>     ...
>>>
>>>      if session['userdata'] is None:
>>>          session.userdata = auth.user.first_name
>>>
>>> I am suspecting this is an issue / bug. Can anyone confirm?
>>> This issue does not arise, if the user explicitly logs out of a session,
>>> or the browser window is closed (I have set my browser to clear all
>>> cookies data when it is closed)
>>>
>>> --
>>>
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>>>
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