Rails - Feb 2006 - explicitly creating new sessions

When reading Agile Web Devlopment with Rails book, at the end of section  
21.3 (avoiding session fixation attacks) it states: "...you should  
consider creating a new session every time someone logs in."

But how would you do such a thing?  When I look through the API docs, I  
only see functions for enabling/disabling session management for certain  
actions, nothing about explicitly triggering a new session to be created.


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Hi

I am wondering the same thing as Jevan here but could not find any  
answer to his question or a resources that explains how to start a  
new session and keep the current session''s value.

I''d be grateful if anyone could provide a solution.

Regards,

Manuel

Am 16.02.2006 um 20:25 schrieb Jevan Gray:
>
> When reading Agile Web Devlopment with Rails book, at the end of  
> section
> 21.3 (avoiding session fixation attacks) it states: "...you should
> consider creating a new session every time someone logs in."
>
> But how would you do such a thing?  When I look through the API  
> docs, I
> only see functions for enabling/disabling session management for  
> certain
> actions, nothing about explicitly triggering a new session to be  
> created.