next-auth: Session not being persisted when I close the browser

Hi, Is there a way to persist the session? As soon as I close the browser, the user is being logged out.

When I saw the cookies that are set, I see Expires/Max-Age value of next-auth.session-token set to Session. I am using the default configuration. By default, I assumed the max-age will be set to 30 days as per documentation. But that doesn’t seem to be the case. Am I missing something?

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Created 3 years ago
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@balazsorban44 I was able to fix it. Thanks for pointing out the relevant code.

Here is the diff: https://github.com/pbteja1998/nextjs-starter/commit/9d885ae5d88e443fe6d1a3e69ddcd6e99e6c9470

pbteja1998 on Jan 16, 2021

As far as I know. (haven’t tested other adapters). @pbteja1998 then we would be glad to accept a PR from you to fix this! 🙂

balazsorban44 on Jan 17, 2021

@balazsorban44 yeah I’d say update that file in the fauna adapter. This only affects that adapter, right?

Good work @pbteja1998!

ndom91 on Jan 16, 2021

In the adapter, the one you just linked. I would check the updateSession function to begin with.

Also, here is the code being called when calling the /api/auth/session endpoint:

https://github.com/nextauthjs/next-auth/blob/78fd783bac990d8f2109487ac6598a38e3173f40/src/server/routes/session.js#L61-L94

As you can see, this should update the cookie expiry whenever session is accessed. In case the sessionToken was found but invalid, the cookie will be removed. So I would also check the getSession function.

(Hint: add debug: true to your NextAuth options to log more information while debugging)

balazsorban44 on Jan 16, 2021