Re: storing passwords in $_SESSION

From: Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 18:38:16 +0000
Subject: Re: storing passwords in $_SESSION
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How secure is it to save a password in $_SESSION. i.e. $_SESSION['password'] is it safe and is it practical?
Probably not. If you're on a shared server, I could write a PHP script to look in /tmp and read the contents of every session file there... -philip

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