Index: session.inc
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RCS file: /cvs/drupal/drupal/includes/session.inc,v
retrieving revision 1.11
diff -u -r1.11 session.inc
--- session.inc	10 Jan 2005 19:36:21 -0000	1.11
+++ session.inc	13 Feb 2005 19:08:05 -0000
@@ -7,6 +7,25 @@
  */
 
 session_set_save_handler("sess_open", "sess_close", "sess_read", "sess_write", "sess_destroy", "sess_gc");
+
+// This section of the code sets the session cookie life time to 1 month.
+// This default can be overridden by by putting the following in the
+// settings.php file, under the $conf variable:
+//
+//   'session_cookie_lifetime' => 2592000,
+//
+// You can set it to any value, here are the most likely ones
+//    86400 : 1 day
+//    172800 : 2 days
+//    604800 : 1 week
+//    1209600 : 2 weeks
+//    2592000 : 1 month
+//    7776000 : 3 months
+//    15552000 : 6 months
+//
+$session_cookie_lifetime = variable_get('session_cookie_lifetime', 2592000);
+ini_set("session.cookie_lifetime", $session_cookie_lifetime);
+
 session_start();
 
 /*** Session functions *****************************************************/