Hi Dave,

I wondered if someone more knowledgable would chip in on this thread:

Glad you found a solution. I suggested DB sessions primarily because it
would be easier to debug and find out what was happening should things
go wrong (and having never expiring sessions is a situation that may
well be prone to problems). I don't always post everything that I am
thinking to keep posts shorter.

As I've alluded, I'm not a session-type expert but: Be careful not to
permit a backdoor to your app - even if the app isn't public. Md5 isn't
really a safe solution: If a malicious user recognises that his
username and/or password is md5ed into a cookie (and this would be most
malicious users' first guess), it's childsplay to change the cookie
value the the md5 value of another username/ common password and see
where it takes you. Here's a very similar thread:
http://groups.google.com/group/cake-php/browse_frm/thread/5395c72c008ab2dd/3b80490729e934ee?q=session+ad7six&rnum=1#3b80490729e934ee

Cheers,

AD7six


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