Google signing in wrong account

Rainmaker

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Lately I've found Google signing into the wrong accounts on our home PC. Myself and my fiancee have a GMail/G+ account each and don't save passwords on the PC. Using the latest Firefox or Chrome, when we select to log into my account and enter my password, Google logs into my fiancee's account. :confused::o

I've cleared the history and caches, and it happens the same way every time. WTH? Does anyone have any idea what's going on here? I'm stumped. I blamed LastPass at first but all that does is store the password and couldn't (or at least, shouldn't) be able to change the account being logged into on a Google page where the account is pre-selected.

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Is this a bug with Google, or some funky password shizzle at the browser level?
 
Mynight said:
Cookies?
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I considered that, as clearly to replicate this both accounts have to have been signed in during the current session. But since the accounts are logged out and re-requesting the account passwords surely that still amounts to a bug with the Google login system? I shouldn't be able to log out and have someone else log into my account just by using the same computer to attempt logging into THEIR account?
 
Hitman_Leon said:
Clear stored passwords and forms?
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Yes that does work, as you'd expect, as there's no longer two accounts to mix up and it logs into the one you request. However being able to access a third party's account simply by logging into your own account on a PC they've used has to be a security bug, Shirley? :p
 
Just set up different windows level user accounts.

You must have some auto form-filling option ticked that remembers everything.
 
Narj said:
Just set up different windows level user accounts.

You must have some auto form-filling option ticked that remembers everything.
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Firefox and Chrome are set to remember nothing, though as stated in the OP we do use LastPass. That only completes the password field though, and the email address belongs to me yet still signs into her account. Obviously we're not bothered about it as we live together, but it did raise an interesting question about the login security of the accounts if such a thing is even possible. I just wondered if anyone else had any ideas, as even with LastPass filling in the password fields I don't see how that would change my email address for hers when we've clicked on my account in the selector Google provides. :)
 
Mynight said:
You both use the same windows(?) account though dont you?
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Yes, and the same Linux account (one root/admin and one user level on both OSs). But unless I'm missing something, nothing about sharing an OS login should influence the way Google logs in, when the account has been fully logged out prior to the new signin attempt.
 
If you both use the same account then the passwords/form data is saved in the same browser. Dont browsers have different instances per windows user account? So if you have both used "user A" account to sign into gmail then the browser would save both sets.

If you had "user A" and a "user B" separate windows accounts then the browser would only remember the data entered into said users account.

:confused: Maybe I'm missing something :D
 
Mynight said:
If you both use the same account then the passwords/form data is saved in the same browser. Dont browsers have different instances per windows user account? So if you have both used "user A" account to sign into gmail then the browser would save both sets.

If you had "user A" and a "user B" separate windows accounts then the browser would only remember the data entered into said users account.

:confused: Maybe I'm missing something :D
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No I understand what you're saying. As screenshot 1 shows both accounts (at least, their email addresses - no passwords) are saved in the browser's session history. Google specifically provides a tool to save your various accounts, allowing you to click which one you wish to sign into. NO passwords are cached or saved on the PC or in the browser.

As such, clicking on my account correctly prompts for my password. However entering it wrongly logs into my fiancee's account. This is not expected or normal behaviour. The password has to be manually inputted each login, and despite entering the correct details for my account, it's my fiancee's that loads.

Obviously clearing the history or having two separate OS accounts would prevent this happening, but that's not the point. The tool is provided by Google to manage multiple logins, but clearly it's somehow failing and logging into an account when it shouldn't. It never used to do this, but this last few days it's started happening. Nothing has changed at our end that I know of.

To be clear, I fully understand that using separate browsers/accounts/OSs/computers would keep the accounts separate. That's not the issue here. The issue is logging into account A actually logging into account B, using Google's own tool, when there is no password caching.
 
I do apologize. It was me who was missing something :( I hope it wasn't too condescending :(

Google sucks! Right I'm going to crawl into a hole and hide then if I can find an answer I may resurface :D
 
Similar on ipad, in fact i thought this was an apple issue, clearly not.
If you sign into multiple accounts, often the first screen brought up is the previous screen showing the kost recent emails,of other accounts. You cannot interact with it, and hitting refresh brings up,the corret page, but it is annoying.
 
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