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HI,
I’ve found heaps of posts on the (annoying) timeout of the control panel, but I have a site where I’m in need of a long User Session timeout. I’m using SafeCracker to gather data from the users and the current timeout is too low.

Where do I set this duration?

J

Hello jensa,

Thank you for posting your question here on the ExpressionEngine forums.

You can set the lockout here: CP Home -> Administration -> Security and Session Preferences.

Does that help?

Cheers,

Hi Shane and thanks for the reply.
I’m not really interested in the Lockout. It’s the Timeout I need to adjust. Any way to do that?

Hello jensa,

Gotcha.

You can tweak the cp-session-ttl variable. I think that will get you what you are after.

Cheers,

Looks brilliant. That’ll affect Safecracker users too, right? Any page refresh from an ordinary member should refresh the Timeout?

J

Hi jensa,

That’s the ticket! Users logged in should be effected by this setting.

Cheers,

Brilliant! Thanks a lot!

J

Hey jensa,

Awesome!

If you need anything else, please just let me know by opening a new thread.

Cheers,