# Autologin without user and password

**URL:** <https://forum.mattermost.com/t/autologin-without-user-and-password/5387>\
**Category:** Troubleshooting\
**Created:** [July 18, 2018, 11:15pm UTC](https://forum.mattermost.com/t/autologin-without-user-and-password/5387 "2018-07-18T23:15:31Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![pacoeu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f07891/32.png) [@pacoeu](https://forum.mattermost.com/u/pacoeu)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2018, 11:15pm UTC](https://forum.mattermost.com/t/autologin-without-user-and-password/5387/1 "2018-07-18T23:15:31Z")

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I have seen in several threads of this forum that you can login without password and user (for example [[SOLVED] Login to Mattermost from browser by skipping the login form](https://forum.mattermost.com/t/solved-login-to-mattermost-from-browser-by-skipping-the-login-form/3468)), with setcookies, but I have not seen a complete example of setcookies, and I can not know what text to put for $key.  
So, for example, see a complete example using the following:  
setcookie($key, $value, time()+60_60_24\*30, ‘/’, ‘.yourdomain.com’, true, true);  
Thanks

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**Author:** ![amy.blais](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mattermost.com/amy.blais/32/7481_2.png) [@amy.blais](https://forum.mattermost.com/u/amy.blais)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2018, 5:44pm UTC](https://forum.mattermost.com/t/autologin-without-user-and-password/5387/2 "2018-07-19T17:44:30Z")

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Hi @pacoeu!

Would this documentation help or let me know if it doesn’t help clarify things: [http://php.net/manual/en/function.setcookie.php](http://php.net/manual/en/function.setcookie.php)?

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**Author:** ![pacoeu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f07891/32.png) [@pacoeu](https://forum.mattermost.com/u/pacoeu)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2018, 6:19pm UTC](https://forum.mattermost.com/t/autologin-without-user-and-password/5387/3 "2018-07-19T18:19:37Z")

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Thanks for your answer.  
The problem is not the use of the function setcookie, but the values of $key. Could you put the required sentence for the token? For example:  
setcookie(’'Token, ‘valuepostedapi’, time()+606024\*30, ‘/’, ‘[yourdomain.com](http://yourdomain.com)’, true, true);  
‘Token’ is properly for mattermost? or which is the ‘text’?  
Thanks again

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**Author:** ![amy.blais](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mattermost.com/amy.blais/32/7481_2.png) [@amy.blais](https://forum.mattermost.com/u/amy.blais)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2018, 10:35pm UTC](https://forum.mattermost.com/t/autologin-without-user-and-password/5387/4 "2018-07-19T22:35:44Z")

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@prixone Would you know what values are required for `$key, $value` in:

```auto
setcookie($key, $value, time()+60*60*24*30, '/', '.yourdomain.com', true, true);

```

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**Author:** ![pacoeu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f07891/32.png) [@pacoeu](https://forum.mattermost.com/u/pacoeu)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2018, 9:26pm UTC](https://forum.mattermost.com/t/autologin-without-user-and-password/5387/5 "2018-07-20T21:26:11Z")

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exactly! I get the value of $value via API, but I don’t know what value to set for $key.  
Any help please?