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fix(session): Keep remembered logins across the session timeout - #65959
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A session that was idle for longer than session_lifetime is ended with a full logout, which also deletes the remember-me cookies. The user is logged out for good, although they asked to stay logged in and the documentation of session_lifetime says a remembered login is transparently re-authenticated after the session expired. End such a session with endInactiveSession() instead: when the request carries valid remember-me cookies for the current session, only the session data is dropped, so the remember-me login signs the user in again. The cookies must belong to the user of the session token. No user backend is set up yet when a session times out, so the session token tells whose session it is. Any other request keeps being logged out as before. The remember-me login is now only attempted with cookies that are strings, and loginWithCookie() requires strings. Clients can send the cookies as arrays, which ended in a TypeError for nc_username and nc_session_id. Assisted-by: ClaudeCode:claude-opus-5 Assisted-by: ClaudeCode:claude-opus-5-5 Signed-off-by: David Dreschner <david.dreschner@nextcloud.com>
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Summary
The "Remember me" feature doesn't work correctly under some circumstances. One of them is that a session that was idle for longer than
session_lifetimeis ended with a full logout, which also deletes the cookies necessary for the "Remember me" feature. This contradicts the documentation forsession_lifetime, which states that users with "Remember me" may be transparently re-authenticated after the session expired, as long as the "Remember me" cookie remains valid:server/config/config.sample.php
Lines 394 to 396 in 5dfaf6c
This is changed with this PR. If the request carries valid "Remember me" cookies for the current session, only the session data is cleared, so the "Remember me" login signs the user in again.
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