[Developers] frontend session expire time?

[Pieter Jelle]

I'm having a problem which I can't seem to find an elegant solution for, 
and I'm hoping that anyone can give me a hint on how to solve it.
I'm trying to make a frontend user session last eternally. If I was to 
implement this in Java, I would do that by calling 
setMaxInactiveInterval(-1) on the session object.
However, since MMBase handles these sessions by itself, I call <mm:cloud 
logon="x" pwd="x" /> when a user logs on to the frontend, after which a 
session is created by MMBase.
As far as I can see there is no way to set the expire time for the 
session with an attribute for mm:cloud. I tried catching the session 
from the Request object and calling setMaxInactiveInterval(-1) on that 
session, but no luck either.
After having searched for quite some time, the only solution I can think 
of is setting the username and password in a cookie, and after 
revisiting the website these values are used to log the user back on. 
This, of course, is far from elegant/safe, so if anyone could point me 
in the right direction, I'd be very grateful.
Thanks in advance!
Best regards
Pieter Jelle
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