destroy session in drupal!!!

Posted by nirvaan on March 20, 2008 at 10:56am

i noticed when a user logs in and doesnt log out. then when he closes the browser and reopens it. the user is still logged in. but i dont want this. i want the session to be destroyed after certain interval. how can session be handled in drupal. please suggest.... thank you.

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Try Session expire

Posted by toma on March 20, 2008 at 11:30am

Try Session expire module
http://drupal.org/project/session_expire

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Note that there was a

Posted by dman on March 20, 2008 at 11:54am

Note that there was a problem with sessions on debian (and ubuntu) so expirys didn't happen without an extra tweak on the server. I can't recall if that was fixed, as it was dismissed as being a server problem.
If you are on debian based server, do a search.

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Set session.cookie_lifetime

Posted by apsivam on March 20, 2008 at 12:38pm

Set session.cookie_lifetime = 0 in settings.ini file
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hi apsivam, i didnt fine

Posted by nirvaan on March 28, 2008 at 10:07am

hi apsivam,
i didnt fine settings.ini but i assumed u mean settings.php. i initialized the session.cookie_lifetime to 0. yet it didnt work. the user still remain logged in. any ideas!!!!!! thank you.