Re: storing passwords in $_SESSION

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I was meaning just the username, not the password, still the same issue?

On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 21:35 +0200, Emil Novak wrote:
> Yet another unsafe way... You can try to write a program that reads
> stored cookies in Temporary Internet Files - it's peace of cake for
> somebody that is advanced programmer. The best way is to "eliminate"
> lazy users - you simply do not implement "auto login". It's the
> fastest, safest and the easiest way to solve the problem.
> 
> Emil NOVAK
> LAMP Developer
> 
> On 10/10/05, Dan Brow <dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Well, um. ya. Back to the drawing board.  Save it in a cookie?
> >
> > On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 14:59 -0400, Kilbride, James wrote:
> > > If the session expired.. how will session hold their user id??
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Dan Brow [mailto:dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > > > Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 3:05 PM
> > > > To: PHP-Users
> > > > Subject: Re:  storing passwords in $_SESSION
> > > >
> > > > Thanks, figured that would be the case. Can't for life of me
> > > > think why I wanted to do that, must have had a brain
> > > > infarction. I want to have an expired session prompt so
> > > > people can log back in with out having to start at the login
> > > > page. Would having the users login saved in $_SESSION be
> > > > alright? prompt them for their password and compare it with
> > > > the password in the DB be fine? I want to reduce the amount
> > > > of typing someone has to do when a session expires.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks.
> > > >
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