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authorJeremy Kemper <jeremy@bitsweat.net>2007-12-15 02:27:56 +0000
committerJeremy Kemper <jeremy@bitsweat.net>2007-12-15 02:27:56 +0000
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Introduce (in /Users/jeremy/rails/git/trunk) to output a crytographically secure secret key for use with cookie sessions.
git-svn-id: http://svn-commit.rubyonrails.org/rails/trunk@8400 5ecf4fe2-1ee6-0310-87b1-e25e094e27de
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-rw-r--r--actionpack/lib/action_controller/session/cookie_store.rb3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/actionpack/lib/action_controller/session/cookie_store.rb b/actionpack/lib/action_controller/session/cookie_store.rb
index 0da092225a..e33a241e99 100644
--- a/actionpack/lib/action_controller/session/cookie_store.rb
+++ b/actionpack/lib/action_controller/session/cookie_store.rb
@@ -34,6 +34,9 @@ require 'openssl' # to generate the HMAC message digest
# defaults to 'SHA1' but may be any digest provided by OpenSSL,
# such as 'MD5', 'RIPEMD160', 'SHA256', etc.
#
+# To generate a secret key for an existing application, run
+# `rake generate:secret` and set the key in config/environment.rb
+#
# Note that changing digest or secret invalidates all existing sessions!
class CGI::Session::CookieStore
# Cookies can typically store 4096 bytes.