[TYPO3] FE-cookies located under Windows-userprofile

[Bert Hiddink]

Hello,

I am facing the following challenge:

A group of FE-users logs in from their intranet to a set of protect 
pages on a externally hosted TYPO3-site.

My client requested to extend the life-time of the FE-cookie to one week 
so that they do not have to re-enter their credentials every time they 
want to consult these pages (after having closed the browser). There is 
an extension of Stefan Geith which does this job, so I installed and 
configured this. As as result, FE-users now can open their browser and 
see the protected pages the following day, without having to re-login. 
So far, so good.

However, in this particular case, the cookies are not stored on each 
workstation but under a Windows-user-profile-location which is stored on 
a local network server. So one may expect that when an employee switches 
from one workstation to another within the local network, the stored 
cookie under his/her profile will be recognized by TYPO3 from that other 
workstation and hence, he/she does not have to re-enter the credentials.

But this is not the case. TYPO3 creates a new cookie (fe_typo_user) for 
every workstation an employee is logging from. Hence, this scheme is not 
  a very elegant solutions in this particular situation.

* Could someone explain me why TYPO3 creates a separate cookie for every 
workstation and does not recognize the earlier stored cookie under the 
Windows-profile for this FE-user?

* How to come a solution here? Should one "hack" the way TYPO3 writes 
the FE-session info into the cookie or are there alternative ways?

Please let me know what you think.

Many thanks in advance as usual!

grt,
-brt

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