It is a security measure to prevent session fixation (and probably
other) attacks.

On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 13:29, Daniel Lohse
<annismcken...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> It's correct that the session id gets regenerated. If you have a look at the 
> sfBasicSecurityUser class you'll see that it calls 
> $this->storage->regenerate(false). It doesn't destroy the session (the false 
> parameter indicates this) and the sfSessionStorage class calls PHP's own 
> session_regenerate_id method 
> (http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.session-regenerate-id.php). It keeps 
> the current session data but as to why this function is needed is also a 
> mystery to me... Anyone?
>
> Regards, Daniel
>
> On 27.02.2010, at 13:15, Pino wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I noticed that after calling addcredential() in Symfony 1.2.11 my
>> session_id gets regenerated. Is this normal behaviour and why is this?
>>
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