Remember Me not working for Login

Why is it that after so much time, My login is not remembered when I visist the site? I always have to keep logging in. Is there any way to change how long I am loggged in or is there a way to set it to where I am always logged in when I visit the site?

Hi Jay,
The "Remember Me" feature of the DotNetNuke Login is implemented by placing an encrypted authentication cookie on the user's machine.

The expiration of this cookie is controlled through the timeout value in the Forms Autentication node  the web.config.

      < forms name=".DOTNETNUKE" protection="All" timeout="60"  cookieless="UseCookies" />

The default setting is 60 minutes, so it can't remember anyone for very long (I call it goldfish mode).

To extend the time your users are remembered make the timeout value larger.

      < forms name=".DOTNETNUKE" protection="All" timeout="20160"  cookieless="UseCookies" />

You can also make it a sliding expiration which means that every time someone visits with an auth cookie thier time will be reset to the value in the timeout.  That way you can keep the timeout shorter, but still convienient for your visitors that make it back to your site before it expires.

      < forms name=".DOTNETNUKE" protection="All" timeout="10080" slidingExpiration="true"
cookieless="UseCookies" />

Now as long as your visitors make it back before the timeout your DotNetNuke memory for who they are will be in Elephant mode.

Thanks for the feedback.  I pasted my code with a space after the opening < so that it would post correctly.

I see also that the code you are posting self-closes that form tag at the end, which is correct unless you have other nodes inside the form tag (which I do).

For anyone else looking at this, it's best just to change the items in bold.

Ok, I went back and changed my original post to include the closing tag since that is what most people will have.

I also removed the other posts to save on confusion if anyone else is looking at this.

Thanks again for the feedback.

I explained this in a little more detail on the DotNetNUke forums in the following thread:

http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Community/Forums/tabid/795/forumid/118/threadid/145428/scope/posts/Default.aspx