Roundcube/Plugin/persistent login

Persistent login

• Home page: https://github.com/mfreiholz/persistent_login
• Plugin name: persistent_login

This nice plugin provides a "Keep me logged in" aka "Remember Me" functionality for Roundcube.Unfortunately this is not available via composer. A fork of this on composer actually exists, but it's not updated and it's not working fine here. So let's install it manually

wget -O persistent_login-5.3.0.tar.gz https://github.com/mfreiholz/persistent_login/archive/refs/tags/version-5.3.0.tar.gz
tar xzf persistent_login-5.3.0.tar.gz
mv persistent_login-version-5.3.0 persistent_login
chown -R apache:apache persistent_login

The plugin works better for me with the sql driver, as the cookie driver sometimes disconnects me. So let's enable the sql driver in the config file:

cd persistent_login
mv config.inc.php.dist config.inc.php

Now turn on tokens here in your config file

$config['ifpl_use_auth_tokens'] = true;

I also renamed the php $rcmail_config variable to $config everywhere, because $rcmail_config is now obsolete in RoundCube.

Finally, if this is a fresh installation of this plugin, we have to create the MySQL table into the roundcube database. The sql code can be found in the sql/mysql.sql file:

USE roundcube;

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `auth_tokens` (
`token` varchar(128) NOT NULL,
`expires` datetime NOT NULL,
`user_id` int(10) UNSIGNED NOT NULL,
`user_name` varchar(128) NOT NULL,
`user_pass` varchar(128) NOT NULL,
`host` varchar(255) NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`token`),
KEY `user_id_fk_auth_tokens` (`user_id`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;

ALTER TABLE `auth_tokens`
ADD CONSTRAINT `auth_tokens_ibfk_1` FOREIGN KEY (`user_id`) REFERENCES `users` (`user_id`) ON DELETE CASCADE;