Wrong user getting displayed on front end

[DrewBrasher]

I have an OrchardCore (1.4) site that is hosted on Windows Server 2008 R2 and IIS 7.5. I have created a theme for the front and copied the LoginMenu.cshtml from TheTheme (https://github.com/OrchardCMS/OrchardCore/blob/9c8f94ff18a462a2d7c0f1feaf4397000f636849/src/OrchardCore.Themes/TheTheme/Views/LoginMenu.cshtml) into my theme.

If I log in as one user, then log out and log in as another user sometimes the front end still shows the previous user is logged in but if I go to the admin side it shows the correct user. I can go back to the front end and it still has the incorrect user name displayed. I disable caching in my browser and it still is wrong. If I wait 5 or 10 minutes and refresh the page it will show the correct user.

This also happens sometimes when one person logs in on their computer and then another person logs in on a different computer.

I have not been able to reproduce the issue locally so I'm thinking this is more of a server/IIS issue than OrchardCore but if anyone has any ideas what could cause this I would appreciate it.

[Skrypt]

Have you checked the "remember me" option when you are logging in so that it persists a cookie? Because the admin side has its own cookie that uses the tenant ID or name if I remember correctly. You need to define if you are using 2 different cookies or only 1 for both admin and frontend. Right now it looks like it is not using the same cookie to define the current user.

[Skrypt]

Ok, then if you have a cache tag on your page, the solution is to vary it by "user".

https://docs.orchardcore.net/en/dev/docs/reference/modules/DynamicCache/

[DrewBrasher]

This is how I was displaying the login menu:

{% shape "LoginMenu", alias: "alias:login-menu", cache_id: "login-menu", cache_tag: "alias:login-menu" %}

[Skrypt]

Cached by cache-id without a vary-by. That's why. 😄

[DrewBrasher]

I tried changing it (in Menu.liquid) to:

{% shape "LoginMenu", alias: "alias:login-menu", cache_id: "login-menu", cache_tag: "alias:login-menu", vary_by: "user" %}

but that did not work so I tried this:

{% cache "login-menu", vary_by: "user" %}
	{% shape "LoginMenu", alias: "alias:login-menu" %}
{% endcache %}

and it still did not work until I also changed this part of the Layout.liquid:

{% shape "menu", alias: "alias:main-menu", cache_id: "main-menu", cache_tag: "alias:main-menu" %}

to:

{% cache "main-menu", vary_by: "user" %}
	{% shape "menu", alias: "alias:main-menu" %}
{% endcache %}

and now it works with Dynamic Cache enabled.

[jtkech]

Hmm as I remember, so here you use the mvc cache tag in place of the shape caching that uses the dynamic cache (which uses the distributed cache). Can you retry with only the shape tag but by also using cache_context: "user"