Idle Time-Out

[Cougar]

I'm a DirectAdmin user.

One thing that has really annoyed me, is the horrible way that it idle-times out. I get interrupted from the computer often, and everytime I return to the screen, It forces me to login AGAIN.

Can anyone tell me where the setting is to extend that idle-timeout to 24 hours? Thanks.

- Cougar

 

[jmstacey]

Sessions are 60minutes by default. This value can be changed in DirectAdmin's configuration file.

/usr/local/directadmin/conf/directadmin.conf
session_minutes=

 

[Cougar]

Thank you.

I'd like it to be 'per user/login'. How can that be aranged?

- Cougar

 

[jmstacey]

You can only set it globally right now. Just out of curiosity, why would you want to set the session time on a per account basis?

btw - I forgot, that the session timeout can also be changed through DirectAdmin in the Administration Settings page.

 

[Cougar]

Good question.

I feel that each user that logs into directadmin has different needs, and should have the priviledge determining their own security/session timeout according to their needs/desires. Its a freedom I desire to provide for myself and each user.

When you say its in the directadmin admin settings section, are you saying just for the server admin, or can each user account reach that setting?

- Cougar

 

[jmstacey]

When you say its in the directadmin admin settings section, are you saying just for the server admin, or can each user account reach that setting?

Still global, it's just one of those tucked away interfaces to changing the configuration without ssh access.

So you want the users to be able to select their own timeouts, such as in some applications (I think squirrelmail does that). I was thinking you wanted to set the timeout's on your own (nevermind )