Re: Saving passwords in 2.28

[Xan Lopez <xan gnome org>]

On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Michael Monreal
<michael monreal gmail com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-11-02 at 16:13 +0200, Xan Lopez wrote:
>> In any case most sites
>> doing auth with forms should auto-login you through cookies, so the
>> impact of this is a lot smaller than what most people imagine when
>> they hear about it.
>
> Even if you accept the idea to keep cookies across sessions (which many
> users are not willing to do, for a reason) this is only valid for the
> lifetime of a cookie. Most Forums and Web mailers limit the cookie to a
> few days or weeks at most. So, I really don't think this is only a small
> issue...

I didn't say it was small, only that is wasn't as catastrophic as some
people want to make it. Maybe it's because all the sites I use (and I
use quite a few) don't have such draconian cookie policies, but I
don't have to retype my password every few days for any of them.

Xan

>
> Cheers,
> -Michael
>
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