Remember me Cookie best practice?
I read about many old questions about this argument, and I thought that the best practice is to set up a cookie with username , user_id and a random token. Same cookie's data is stored in DB at cookie creation, and when users have the cookie they are compared (cookie data, DB data). Sincerely I can't understand where is the security logic if this is the real best practice. An attacker who steals the cookie has the same cookie than the original user :| Forgotten some step? :P You should store the user_id and issue a random token in addition to the user's password. Use the token in the cookie