[OpenID board] Staying signed in to openid.net

[Drummond Reed]

I am fine with any period the user chooses, including the current
Del.icio.us default of 2 weeks. And also with persistent until logged out.

=Drummond 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: board-bounces at openid.net [mailto:board-bounces at openid.net] On Behalf
> Of Brian Kissel
> Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 7:07 PM
> To: board at openid.net
> Subject: Re: [OpenID board] Staying signed in to openid.net
> 
> Thanks for the feedback from Marty and Chris.  Anyone else have an opinion
> on 12 hours (or 24 hours, or 3 days, etc.) vs. persistent until logged
> out?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Brian
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: board-bounces at openid.net [mailto:board-bounces at openid.net] On Behalf
> Of Martin Atkins
> Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 3:44 PM
> To: board at openid.net
> Subject: Re: [OpenID board] Staying signed in to openid.net
> 
> Brian Kissel wrote:
> > This is something that Refresh media set up some time ago so that the
> login timed out after 2 hours.  Refresh has recommended increasing the
> timeout period to 12 hours and Mike Jones has approved that.  Will that be
> sufficient for everyone?
> >
> 
> That seems like a reasonable fix for now, but in the long term I think
> what Chris was requesting was something more like a "Remember me" option
> where the session will stay active until he explicitly logs out.
> 
> Since access to the OIDF membership area is low-value (there's some
> personal information and the ability to vote on things that aren't of
> interest to anyone outside of the OpenID community) I don't think having
> indefinite sessions poses a terrible security risk. I'm happy to be
> disagreed with, of course. :)
> 
> (To be clear, though, I don't suggest anything more than fiddling with
> the settings until the election is completed.)
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