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Re: [LUG] PHP Session problems

 

James Fidell wrote:
> Anton Channing wrote:
> 
>> But what if you've revoked the users admin
>> privileges in the mean time?  They will still
>> have an active cookie.  Your method is
>> insecure.

> Or what if a user decides to give themselves admin
> privileges by hacking the cookie to change their
> user type?  OK, so they'd have to guess the exact
> string, but it's not exactly difficult, is it?

I suspected that might be also be possible
but that really stretched my knowledge about
cookies!

Thanks for expanding my point on this one!

Anton

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