By dasein668 on

I've done a search here to find out whether or not it is possible to implement a "remember me" option at login. I did find this thread http://drupal.org/node/20002 but there seems to be no conclusion to the issue.

To summarize what I want to be able to do:

  1. By default, have the session cookie expire upon closing of the browser. This, becuase many of my users login from public computers, and I don't want to have to trust them to remember to logout. This is done in the settings.php file, if I understand correctly.
  2. Have an option to "stay logged in" in the login panel whereby users can select a box that will either over-ride, or set a new cookie with a session-expiry time that I (the site admin/webmaster) have specified. This doesn't need to be adjustable in the user interface—I'm happy to set it somewhere in the code.

Is there an existing patch for this which I haven't yet found? Can this be done by adding code to the user module that will overwrite the session cookie set in the settings.php file?

Thanks for any help!

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dasein668 commented

No thoughts on this one? Durn!

Nathan Sanborn
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FiReaNGeL commented

That SO should be the default behavior of Drupal. Right now its retarded. We can't rely on users clicking 'log out' on public terminals, and I shouldnt have to hack the code for such a basic function :(

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