"Remember me" with ASP.NET MVC Authentication is not working

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Tomas Aschan picture Tomas Aschan · Feb 5, 2009 · Viewed 21.2k times · Source

I have a standard ASP.NET MVC (RC Refresh) web project, with the standard ASP.NET Membership provider and the Account controller that is included in the project template.

When I check "Remember me" in my Login form, I am still not being remembered by the site. (Firefox remembers my username and password, but what I expected to happen was to be automatically logged on).

Do I have to set and check the cookie manually? If so, how should it best be done?

Answer

Todd Smith picture Todd Smith · Feb 5, 2009

You need to pass true/false to the SetAuthCookie method.

public ActionResult Login (string email, string password, bool rememberMe, string returnUrl)  
{

    // snip

    FormsAuth.SetAuthCookie(username, rememberMe); // <- true/false

    // snip
}

and make sure that bool rememberMe reflects the status of the checkbox on your login page.

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