remember me option in login

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  1. rekha

    rekha New Member

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    Hi,

    I have used cookies to set remember me option while login.If cookies are set,I have used sessions to set the login.But it seems to be hackable.How can I use secure login with remember me option.

    Pls suggest me a good solution.
     
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    Encrypt your value stored in the cookies
     
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    Then how to implement the username and store it in sessions for login.

    Thanks.
     
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    Encrypted.
     
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    I understand that we have to encrypt the details and store it in cookies but I dont know how to reassign them when login.
     
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    No need to decrypt and compare both encrypted.

    Say you have value X Which when encrypted becomes djakshdakjs

    So now instead of converting djakshdakjs to X encrypt X and compare with djakshdakjs
     
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    I don't know how you said its hackable. Use sessions for logins and cookies just for remember me options. I don't think you want the user to get logged in directly rather you want his/her username/email to be displayed in the form if he chooses remember me options.
     

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