[Moin-user] User Login problems (was MoinMoin 1.1 is out)

[Allister MacLeod]

On Mon, Dec 08, 2003 at 11:02:36AM -0800, Ian Epperson wrote:
> > 1.0 didnt support password login.
> Perhaps I'm referring to something else.  We used to be able to go the
> UserPreferences page, give it a user name and password, and it would set
> a cookie and remember the user.  The user name would then appear in the
> upper right corner of every page.

Are you sure it was name/passwd?  As far as I know, even though the
UserPreferences of Moin 1.0 presented form fields for those, they had
no effect.  The only actions that were useful were to login using your
ID number, or to put in your email address and have your ID mailed to you.

> > That should set the cookie lifetime to quite some years. Maybe check if
> > that really happens.
> The cookie is there.  It's got the right user ID in it.  I'm not sure
> how to check it's expiration date though.

Its expiration date should be stored by the browser in the same file
as the cookie value.  It may be a human readable date, or it may be a
value indicating a large number of seconds.

Here's an example from my ~/.mozilla/default/*.slt/cookies.txt:
www.linuxjournal.com   FALSE   FALSE   1066501574   lang   english
The number 1066501574 indicates a date sometime between Oct. 18 and
Oct. 19 of this year.  (so it's actually an expired cookie now)

A bientot,
 Allister

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