Cookies Question...

[tasman]

Is there someway I can completely turn cookies off. I want to force users to log into the forum each time they visit.

thanks

[Jake Bunce]

You can force the "Automatically login when you return to the site" setting by editing a couple templates.

To force this preference when a user registers, edit your registeradult and registercoppa templates:

Replace:

<tr>
<td bgcolor="{firstaltcolor}"><normalfont><b>Automatically login when you return to the site? (uses cookies)</b></normalfont></td>
<td bgcolor="{firstaltcolor}"><normalfont>
<input type="radio" name="cookieuser" value="yes" checked> yes
<input type="radio" name="cookieuser" value="no"> no
</normalfont></td>
</tr>

with:

<tr>
<td bgcolor="{firstaltcolor}"><normalfont><b>Automatically login when you return to the site? (uses cookies)</b></normalfont></td>
<td bgcolor="{firstaltcolor}"><normalfont>
<input type="hidden" name="cookieuser" value="no"> no
</normalfont></td>
</tr>

To prevent them from changing this option later, remove this from your modifyoptions template:

Remove:

<tr>
<td bgcolor="{firstaltcolor}"><normalfont><b>Automatically login when you return to the site? (uses cookies)</b></normalfont></td>
<td bgcolor="{firstaltcolor}"><normalfont>
<input type="radio" name="cookieuser" $cookieuserchecked value="yes"> yes
<input type="radio" name="cookieuser" $cookieusernotchecked value="no"> no
</normalfont></td>
</tr>

To update this option for all current users, run this query on your database:

UPDATE user SET cookieuser=0

Backup your database before querying it!

[tasman]

thank you for your reply

I did as you suggested. However, I have a user testing it for me. He uses op sys 98se. He has saved his userid and password to windows. He does not get prompted to log in - automatically enters the forum.

For myself, the above suggestion works. I did not save my userid and password to windows.

[Steve Machol]

You have to do the same as above for nosessionhash, including the query:

UPDATE user SET nosessionhash=0

[Bema Jinn]

Just curious, why would you want to do this?

[tasman]

ok - did that too. Same thing. This user says he does not get prompted to log in.

[Jake Bunce]

Have the user completely close his browser and relaunch it.

If that doesn't work, have him close his browser and manually delete the cookies for your site.