by Matthew McBride
In my early testing of SharePoint 2013, I ran
across an extremely annoying “bug.” If you attempt to log into a site that has
not been “shared” to you by a Site Collection Administrator (SCA), you receive
the following error message:
(Click on pictures for expanded view)
OK…fair enough. But the annoying part is that
there is no way to log out of the current session. While testing Claims
Authentication in SharePoint 2013, I would often test logging in with an FBA
user and run across this issue. The headache for me was that I was unable to sign
in as a Windows SCA and make the appropriate change. I tried closing down all
sessions of Internet Explorer (IE), waiting for it to “timeout,” etc. The only
workaround I was able to use was to open an InPrivate session in IE and log in
there:
But even that is still a hassle if you are
testing several different areas that involve logging in and out with different
authentication methods and permission levels. Fortunately, I was able to find a
somewhat easier method that will allow you to sign in as a different user. If
you append the following string to the URL, you are logged out and taken back
to the default sign-in page:
/_layouts/15/AccessDenied.aspx?loginasanotheruser=true
So, in my case, I changed it from this:
To this:
After that, I was finally able to get back here:
