By Robson5 on

how do I make a session time out if it is inactive for a specified time. Eg. when a person closes the browser for 1 hr without signing out, it signs out automatically.

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pfmj2005’s picture

pfmj2005 commented

session time is set in the settings.php of the site... hope that helped...

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cog.rusty’s picture

cog.rusty commented

Yes, I looked it up and it seem to be the "session.cookie_lifetime" in each site's settings.php

The time is specified in seconds and Drupal's default is 2,000,000 sec, i.e. 23 days.
By changing it to 0 the session cookie expires as soon as the user closes the browser.

see http://php.net/ref.session

I am not sure whether one must fiddle with cache and gc (carbage collector) timeouts too.