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Authentication - Have to login with my Frontier account every time I want to use EDSM #487

Closed louisrousseau closed 2 years ago

louisrousseau commented 2 years ago

Browser: Chrome 104.0.5112.81 on Windows 10. Login is done through the Frontier Auth Service. Upon trying to open EDSM again, typically one or two days later, have to login again. Any logs or reports that would be useful to troubleshoot?

Thanks,

Louis

klightspeed commented 2 years ago

Are you on Epic? The Epic OAuth2 refresh tokens have a very short lifetime, and expire after a day or two.

louisrousseau commented 2 years ago

So far I've been using the Frontier login and password directly; my Frontier account is linked to my Steam account, just attempted using Steam via Frontier, will update if it makes a difference.

klightspeed commented 2 years ago

I don't think "Remember Me" is an option for Frontier logins, so the session cookie keeping you logged in will vanish when you close your browser. I think sessions are also aged out on the server if they haven't been used for a certain amount of time.

louisrousseau commented 2 years ago

I don't think "Remember Me" is an option for Frontier logins

I don't see one.

the session cookie keeping you logged in will vanish when you close your browser

Looks like that's what's happening: even with explicit "allow cookies + third party site cookies" settings for [*.]frontier.co.uk, [*.]frontierstore.net, and [*.]edsm.net closing the browser scraps the session.

I tried checking the "Remember me" box below the e-mail login form in the hope it might affect the Frontier login as well but no such luck.

Can something be done on the site with respect to the Frontier login feature or is it a system limitation and I should simply look into creating an e-mail based account instead?

klightspeed commented 2 years ago

If you want to use normal EDSM authentication, you should be able to do a password reset on EDSM using the email address associated with your frontier / steam account.

louisrousseau commented 2 years ago

If you want to use normal EDSM authentication, you should be able to do a password reset on EDSM using the email address associated with your frontier / steam account.

Did that, checked "Remember me" - looks like it maintains the session now, thanks!