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by wruza 429 days ago
If one doesn't want to regenerate passwords, don't log people out. The only reason this "workflow" works is that email sessions work for years, sometimes decades, without nagging users to re-login.

Sites, do yourself a favor and store active sessions indefinitely and the only password-dealing scenario you'll ever see will be (1) at sign up, once per user, (2) when users clear cookies, which the login-problematic types rarely do for obvious reasons.

95% of my family password support is the sites that log them out on their own.

Edit: grammar/pronouns