As threads like this show, it would probably be good to document the cookie life-time in settings.php explicitly. Patch attached, might need some re-wording, though.

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dries commented

I don't see how better documentation would have solved his problem.

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kbahey commented

This setting came as a result of discussions http://drupal.org/node/2974 and http://drupal.org/node/17303

I recall someone else spending some time documenting a few things in settings.php in a separate patch, but can't remember who it was, nor can I find the patch itself.

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Anonymous (not verified) commented

Regarding #1: True, it wouldn't really have helped to solve the problem I linked to, but I'm sure it'll save some other people (who actually read the comments) some hassle.

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dries commented

It think we actually OK now because it is a good default. The problem was with people who had no .htaccess support. Right now, the default should always get set.