[thelist] Logins and cookies

[Dan Romanchik]

I was thinking more like every other day. That seems to be what Yahoo does.
You could also write a simple program that generates a random password and
e-mails it to the e-mail address of the account. That way you could reassign
passwords automatically.

Dan

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Kogler" <ken at kenkogler.com>
To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 2:56 PM
Subject: RE: [thelist] Logins and cookies


> > You might also want to set an expiration on that cookie so
> > that the user
> > will have to login again periodically no matter what.
>
> +1 on that... If you set the expiration to a year or something like
> that,  you'll be swamped with users asking "what's my password again?"
> when they clear their caches... Set the cookie to expire every other
> week or so... Saves you a lot of headache.
>
> -Ken
>
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