Login Cookie Validity

[jonjie0317]

This might be a useful feature until I upgrade my wamp to 3.1.7 which has phpmyadmin v4.8.4. How can I set this now?

Screenshot:

[ibennetch]

Are you saying that you had been able to set LoginCookieValidity through the "Settings" tab? If so, please let me know which version you had so we can look in to why this disappeared.

Aside from that, not all of the configuration options are exposed in the Settings tab, for some (including, I thought, LoginCookieValidity), you have to edit the configuration file config.inc.php and add a line like $cfg['LoginCookieValidity'] = 3600;.

[jonjie0317]

@ibennetch

[ibennetch]

Ok, thanks. Could you tell me which version that is? Version information is on the main page, in the right hand column.

[jonjie0317]

Ok, thanks. Could you tell me which version that is? Version information is on the main page, in the right hand column.

@ibennetch It was v4.6.4.

[jonjie0317]

@ibennetch Any updates?

[ibennetch]

Thanks for providing the additional information. I was able to determine that this was removed with commit 1fb2887 for the release of 4.8.0.

I'm not certain, but I think the intention with that commit was to maintain consistency; I think there's no reason we can't incorporate some more of the cookie settings here.

[saurass]

@ibennetch should I work on this and incorporate the cookie setting?

[williamdes]

@saurass You can work on this one if you want and we will review your PR :)

[saurass]

Okay great !

[williamdes]

@ibennetch should the #15145 PR target QA_4_8 ?

[williamdes]

@ibennetch ?

[jdtechsol]

So... the ability to modify this value via the web interface was removed in 4.9.0.1?

[williamdes]

So... the ability to modify this value via the web interface was removed in 4.9.0.1?

I would say 4.8.0 #15001 (comment)

[alexissel]

I'm using v5.0.1 and I cannot see the "Login Cookie Validity" option in Settings -> Features.

Do you have any suggestions?

[williamdes]

For now you can use the config file, I am not sure why it was removed

[str]

I got here because the my phpAdmin 5.0.2 did not had the option to change session duration in the frontend. I looked in the config.inc.sample.php file and it was no there neither.

[williamdes]

I got here because the my phpAdmin 5.0.2 did not had the option to change session duration in the frontend. I looked in the config.inc.sample.php file and it was no there neither.

Hi @str
Are you looking for https://docs.phpmyadmin.net/en/latest/config.html#cfg_LoginCookieValidity ?

[str]

@williamdes Yes I was looking for anything related to Login OR Cookies, but didn't found it in the "sample.inc" file. Usually those sample files have all config flags set with default values, for one to change, but in this case, there was none.

[williamdes]

Yes, because we have a lot of them and want to have a small sample file :)
You can find all configs in https://github.com/phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin/blob/RELEASE_5_0_4/libraries/config.default.php but do not edit this file.

[str]

I don't know Rick... removing the flag from the GUI as well as the config file, makes it look like a deprecated flag. I understand you, but most users won't go through the process of digging into github's issues to find out which one is the deprecated one, if the documentation, the flag, or the config demo file.

[williamdes]

Maybe @ibennetch could give a final point of view to close this issue ?
It is quite an old one and I do not know more about if it should show on the GUI or not

[ibennetch]

I'm fine with us merging #15145 and adding this setting back to the GUI.