topic Re: How To Change Default Session Status in Alfresco Archive

How To Change Default Session Status

etzapata — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 07:41:42 GMT

Hello everyone! I was wondering what file to configure if I change the default session status or the time when Alfresco user is being logged out if user is idle for so many minutes. The default is (I'm not sure but it's too long) about 1 hour. I wanted to make it about 5 minutes. That is, when t

Re: How To Change Default Session Status

richard_tsai — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 08:44:58 GMT

For your first problem, you may set session timeout in {tomcat-home}/webapps/alfresco/WEB-INF/web.xml


  <session-config>
     <session-timeout>5</session-timeout>
  </session-config>
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For the second problem, I guess it depends on what authentication services you are using. For instance, if you are using AD to authenticate users, you may setup the rule in AD.

Re: How To Change Default Session Status

etzapata — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 06:16:11 GMT

Hi Richard,
Thank you very much for your help. My first problem is now solved. For my second concern, I'm not sure what you mean, but for you to have a clearer view on my problem, I'm using Alfresco v1.4 using the default bundle for jboss. I haven't done anything substantial to the program, just simple and ordinary changes. As for the authentication, I'm still using the default because I didn't change anything regarding authentication.
Thanks again.

EriC