How does the forum verify that I'm logged in on my devices?

[Jubel]

Basicly blah blah blah log in as Jubel really long password yeah.

However my question with this is that I log in from my school quite a lot, and even though I used the timed login, I'm worried that someone would be able log in onto their school "account" thing, come across the forum, and be logged in as me in the last few minutes of it's login time. (I'm also worried because on one computer I have it logged in permanently)

Same thing on my phone, I'm logged in permanently there too.

While I'm pretty sure the chances for this happening are probably next to nothing, It would still be reassuring to know it can/can't happen.

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[sir dooble]

I'm not sure that's possible. I don't know how website logins work, but I've never experienced something like that before.
It's the same as how if you have multiple user accounts on a home computer and one of them is signed into an e-mail account they won't all be signed in to that e-mail account when they visit the website.
The school accounts should all be seperate so they shouldn't share the same log-in infos for websites, even if you sign in permanently or if you save your username/password.


I am curious to know however if there is a max number of systems you can be permanently logged into the forums from.
If I log in on my mum's laptop, even for a set amount of time, it will usually log me out of another computer that I'm normally permanently logged in to.
But it doesn't seem to be entirely consistent as to whether it does that or to which computer it will log me out from.

[Pecon]

It depends how the log in thing works. If it uses a different account on the computer for each user, then you're okay. If it uses the same account for all users, then most likely people can use your account unless the system is actually smart and somehow manages each user's cookies so they only work per-user.

[Steve5451²]

I open up an incognito tab when I'm using the forum in school. I check permanently and just close the window when I'm done and  I'll be logged out.