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For login in members I use cookies. The exp_expiration cookie has a expiration time of one year. I want it 8 hours. Where can I change this setting?

You can’t (easily). The point of cookies is to allow the user to stay logged in. If you are concerned about security, consider using session ids.

I don’t mind hacking a bit because it is important that my users aren’t logged in longer then say 8 hours.
Using session-id is a problem because of the forum. Some users of the forum seem to be logged out,for certain pages, although they are not. Refreshed a couple off times displays the page correct.
If you could point me in the right direction how to adjust the expiration time, I would appreciate it very much.

Take a look at core.session.php, line 416:

// Cookie expiration:  One year
    $expire = (60*60*24*365);

As I’ve said, it’s not supported, though.

Thanks very much

My pleasure 😊

By the way I also changed the $expire in line 769 in function update_cookies(). This finally solved it.