[Rails] 'remember me' using cookies

Alan Bullock liststuff at gmail.com
Thu Jul 27 12:45:15 GMT 2006


I'm about to implement this, and I'm thinking of storing the user's id and 
their hashed password in the cookie after a successful authentication.

can any see an obvious security issue with this? I know the method is 
vulnerable to cookie theft but am i missing anything?

thanks
alan 





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