Re: Forms Authentication expiry issue

From: Dominick Baier [DevelopMentor] (dbaier_at_pleasepleasenospamdevelop.com)
Date: 08/30/05 

Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 07:35:04 -0700

Hello srlowe@hotmail.com,

are you using FormsAuthentication.RedirectFromLoginPage or SetAuthCookie
- there is parameter which specifies if the login cookie should be persistent.
I guess you are setting this to true.

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Dominick Baier - DevelopMentor
http://www.leastprivilege.com

> Hi,
>
> I'm having a problem with forms authentication on an asp.net
> application. To summarise, after logging in initially, the login
> never expires. I can come back to the application after days, and I'm
> still logged in. However, if I delete cookies from the browser I am
> once again redirected to the login page. I currently have timeout="2"
> in the athentication/forms element of the web.config.
>
> Anyone have any idea about what might be causing the problem?
>
> Thanks
>