Title: wp-admin – authentication – user logout problem
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# wp-admin – authentication – user logout problem

 *  [zigzagob](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zigzagob/)
 * (@zigzagob)
 * [17 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-admin-authentication-user-logout-problem/)
 * Hi:
 * I placed password protection on my wp-admin folder using the password function
   in C-Panel. This worked fine with WP 2.3.3. When you try to access wp-admin it
   prompts you with the standard authentication window before you reach the WP login
   page.
 * After upgrading to 2.5.1, it still works the same, however, when a normal user
   is logged in and selects the LOGOUT link, the standard authentication window 
   appears.
 * Any ideas why this is happening? Why would the logout function access wp-admin?
 * Thanks

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 *  Thread Starter [zigzagob](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zigzagob/)
 * (@zigzagob)
 * [17 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-admin-authentication-user-logout-problem/#post-794745)
 * In case anyone else has this problem, here’s the work-around I came up with:
 * The authentication window is coming up because the login page is getting styles
   from the CSS folder inside wp-admin. So I copied the contents of login.css and
   colors-fresh.css and embedded them in the login page inside a style tag. I also
   had to put a copy of logo-login.gif in the images folder above where wordpress
   resides. (This image is referenced in one of the styles.)
 * Frankly, I’m baffled why no one else seems to have this problem (I searched and
   searched). It seems to be common advice to put password protection on the wp-
   admin folder.

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## Tags

 * [authentication](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/authentication/)
 * [Logout](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/logout/)
 * [wp-admin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/wp-admin/)

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 * Last reply from: [zigzagob](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zigzagob/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-admin-authentication-user-logout-problem/#post-794745)
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