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

[Peter C. Lai]

This happened to me yesterday, however, if you relog in, it seemed to have
gone to the page I was about to go to, so it was not that big of an
issue...

On 2009-09-16 07:22:01AM -0500, 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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