Re: storing passwords in $_SESSION

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How secure is it to save a password in $_SESSION.

i.e. $_SESSION['password']

is it safe and is it practical?

Probably not. If you're on a shared server, I could write a PHP script to look in /tmp and read the contents of every session file there...

-philip

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