Cookies for admin area...
As some of you may know I'm writing a simulated Credit Card system for my site and I have managed to successfully make the admin login section using a MySQL backend. Anyways, how secure would cookies be for the admin section?
I plan on having the admin page set a cookie upon a successful login and store the username and password in the cookie for the other admin pages to check. If a page detects any inconsistency in the cookie, the person will be sent to the login page.
Any suggestions? Would cookies be good for this, security wise? The script isnt mission critical, but I don't want security that can be bypassed easily.
I could prolly use Sessions, but I want to figure out cookies first ;)