Remember Me functionality not working in Symfony2

Question

I have implemented remember me functionality in Symfony2. When I log in with remember me box checked, cookie named \"REMEMBERME\" gets created. That cookie is also available

Answer 1

Although this question has already been answered, I would like to contribute a possible solution, if only for posterity and Google search referrals for this problem :)

"The issue is simple: a remembered used does not have the IS_AUTHENTICATED_FULLY role but only IS_AUTHENTICATED_REMEMBERED to make a difference between a remembered user and a user who logged in"

Source: http://www.mail-archive.com/symfony-users@googlegroups.com/msg34021.html

What this means is that in your security configuration, you must make sure that for every ACL entry the IS_AUTHENTICATED_REMEMBERED role is configured in addition to the IS_AUTHENTICATED_FULLY role.

For example:

#app/config/security.yml
security:
    ...
    access_control:
        - { path: ^/login$, role: IS_AUTHENTICATED_ANONYMOUSLY }
        - { path: ^/admin/, role: [IS_AUTHENTICATED_FULLY,IS_AUTHENTICATED_REMEMBERED] }

Answer 2

I had the same issue. After investigation I found that : /vendor/symfony/doctrine-bridge/Security/User/EntityUserProvider.php::loadUserByUsername() requires to either have set the property field on your entity user provider or that your repository implements Symfony\Bridge\Doctrine\Security\User\UserLoaderInterface and has a method loadUserByUsername().

I just added the property field like so :

providers:
    user_provider:
        entity:
            class: App\Entity\User
            property: email

Answer 3

In my case, the authenticators was overided with the method supportsRememberMe:

public function supportsRememberMe()
{
    return true; // change it to true
}

Answer 4

I had this problem and the issue was that I did not use single quotation marks in the property key of remember_me section (security.yml).

Change this:

remember_me:
    key:      qwerty
    lifetime: 604800
    path:     /
    domain:   ~

to this:

remember_me:
    key:      'qwerty'
    lifetime: 604800
    path:     /
    domain:   ~

You can check it in the symfony documentation:
http://symfony.com/doc/2.7/cookbook/security/remember_me.html

Answer 5

try to increase your session lifetime: (config.yml)

  framework:
    session:
        default_locale: %locale%
        auto_start:     true
        lifetime:       604800

Answer 6

I'm using Symfony 4 and I had a similar problem, the REMEMBERME cookies was not set.

My issue was that I had a value="" set to the input type checkbox field.

So I changed from this

<input type="checkbox" value="" id="remember_me" name="_remember_me">

to this

<input type="checkbox" id="remember_me" name="_remember_me">