Accounts.config behaviour change - 1.5.2 [Solved]

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Hi,

Since the upgrade, my meteor application behaviour on login/logout has changed. Currently, in my imports->startup->sever->accounts.js I have the following -

import { Accounts } from 'meteor/accounts-base';

Accounts.config({
  // loginExpirationInDays: 0.0416667,
  loginExpirationInDays: null,
});

Prior to 1.5.2, this meant during dev, restarts due to code changes would allow me to not have to login/logout, i.e. user would be logged in continuously. Since the update, i now need to login every single time i make a code change, as meteor logs out my user (i.e. the fixture user, admin@admin.com).

Does anyone know how I would start to understand what is happening? Assistance much appreciated.

Edit: Not sure if this is obvious, but during the dev process, the idea is setting the loginExpirationInDays: null to make it easy to test. This is what has stopped working.

Note: I have not yet tested to see what happens when i set the loginExpirationInDays to a non null value. Just trying to track the error at this point, error may be on my side, not sure.

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Not sure it’s the exact same problem, but I keep getting logged out of my app since updating to Meteor 1.5.2, including on my deployed app. No error message on client or server, just logged out for no reason.

I also have loginExpirationInDays set to null, but I’ve always had that. Not sure what the issue is, will stick to 1.5.1 for now.

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are you able to deploy 1.5.2 to galaxy - mine is failing? I might also moved back to 1.5.1.

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If you use Chrome and look at the inspector, click on the application tab and then storage->local storage. It will show your token expiration date. If you use 1.5.2, setting the loginexpiration to null makes the date invalid, showing a 1960s date. That is obviously expired, so each time you reload, it logs out you. I noticed this and changed the loginexpiration to 3650 (10 years), works just fine. The date needs fixed.

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Thank you, that fixed my problem!

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legend… much appreciated.