[PHP] session cookie that never expires

2003-02-17 Thread Altug Sahin
Hi there, I have setup a site with session management but even the browser is closed or after the default time expiration of the session, the user should be able to see his/her personalized settings. I am nor using any cookies. How can I make this happen without changing my session related code?

Re: [PHP] session cookie that never expires

2003-02-17 Thread Jason Sheets
Making your session never expire is a bad idea, by doing this you are most likely going to be using the same session id forever which gives attackers a much longer amount of time to guess or brute force a session id AND you will continue to use hard drive space and inodes on your server because gc

Re: [PHP] session cookie that never expires

2003-02-17 Thread Justin French
on 18/02/03 1:40 AM, Altug Sahin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi there, I have setup a site with session management but even the browser is closed or after the default time expiration of the session, the user should be able to see his/her personalized settings. I am nor using any cookies.

Re: [PHP] session cookie that never expires

2003-02-17 Thread Jason Sheets
You shouldn't store user password in cookies on a browser, instead a more secure method for the user is: On your login form offer the ability to be remembered, if they click the Remember Me box generate a unique random ID (or 2 and combine them), now store this ID in your database attached to

Re: [PHP] session cookie that never expires

2003-02-17 Thread Justin French
Nice!! Justin French on 18/02/03 12:54 PM, Jason Sheets ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: You shouldn't store user password in cookies on a browser, instead a more secure method for the user is: On your login form offer the ability to be remembered, if they click the Remember Me box generate a