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by ceejayoz 5519 days ago
Not only is it unnecessary, it won't do anything. One of the big points of access tokens is that they survive password changes, so a user can change their credentials and not have to reauthorize a few dozen apps.
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"If the user changes their password, the access token expires" [http://developers.facebook.com/docs/authentication/]
That's not the case if `offline_access` has been requested.