I'm using passport to handle authentication and sessions in my application. I'm persisting sessions to mongodb using mongostore.

The setup works fine in general. However, when I restart the server all users are logged out, so apparently sessions are hold in memory instead of being only persisted to mongodb. I'm trying to achieve a setup where users are still logged in when restarting the server.

Basic configuration is as follows

middleware

    app.use(express.cookieParser('your secret here'));
    app.use(express.session());
    app.use(passport.initialize());
    app.use(passport.session({
        maxAge: new Date(Date.now() + 3600000),
        store: new MongoStore(
            {
                db: mongodb.Db(
                    conf.mongodbName,
                    new mongodb.Server(
                        'localhost',
                        27017,
                        {
                            auto_reconnect: true,
                            native_parser: true
                        }
                    ),
                    {
                        journal: true
                    }
                )
            },
            function(error) {
                if(error) {
                    return console.error('Failed connecting mongostore for storing session data. %s', error.stack);
                }
                return console.log('Connected mongostore for storing session data');
            }
        )
    }));

passport

passport.use(new LocalStrategy(
    {
        usernameField: 'email',
        passwordField: 'password'
    },
    function(email, password, done) {
        console.log('user %s attempting to authenticated', email);
        return User.findOne({email:email}, function(error, user) {
            if(error) {
                console.error('Failed saving user %s. %s', user.id, error.stack);
                return done(error);
            }