[rhn-users] Re: RHN Hosted web session expires too quickly

[Robert Potts]

perhaps the best way to make your voice heard is to say goodbye...

I like Redhat, kind of, and I'm no expert on Linux flavors but something 
like SUSE or Gentoo might work as well and even better in some regards.

just a thought.

'nuff said.

daryl herzmann wrote:
> Well howdy again,
>
> In case anybody was curious to reproduce this, here are the 
> challenging steps:
>
>  1) Locate a stop watch.  It need not be a fancy one, my 1980s vintage
>     Casio wristwatch was up for the task.
>  2) Log into RHN (be sure to have all the "Your RHN" modules disabled so
>     that your login does not time out).
>  3) Start the stopwatch!
>  4) Surf the RHN website.  Check out how it took RHN a week to schedule
>     RHEL5.4 . Look at all of your systems and think warm thoughts about
>     how all of your information about your open source systems are stored
>     by Red Hat in a proprietary database.
> ----> you are logged out in between your feverish clicking. Yell: "Boom!"
>  5) Look at your stopwatch, it will say somewhere around  16 minutes 
> and 45
>     seconds.
>
> Enjoy!
>
> daryl
>
> On Thu, 10 Sep 2009, daryl herzmann wrote:
>
>> Well howdy there!
>>
>> I am a RHN hosted user that is getting very frustrated with having my 
>> web session timeout after what seems to be only a few minutes of 
>> inactivity (perhaps 5-15 minutes worth).  It was a much longer period 
>> prior to a few months ago.
>>
>> I asked redhat support and got this response:
>>
>>   "We would like inform you that, times out session for RHN is not
>>    configurable and we can not change it."
>>
>> Well that is not cool.  Does anybody know of a setting or something 
>> that I can do to work around this?
>>
>> thanks,
>>   daryl
>
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