[horde] inactivity timeout

[Kevin Konowalec]

On Jun 1, 2005, at 12:34 PM, Kevin Myer wrote:

> Quoting Kevin Konowalec <kevin at ualberta.net>:
>
>
>> Is there a way to specify an inactivity timeout in Horde?  If a user
>> is actively working on something he should never get booted - but if
>> his session sits idle for a certain amount of time he is
>> automatically logged out.  Should his session come alive in under the
>> time limit the counter should be reset.
>>
>
> How do you define inactivity?  If I'm typing a long email and it  
> takes me two
> hours, I could be actively typing the whole time but inactive as  
> far as Horde
> is concerned...
>


Well the primary use will be for our students in public labs.   
They've got a habit of forgetting to log out and leaving the  
terminal, thus opening themselves up to problems.  Historically we've  
instituted a 15 minute timeout, so if the server gets no requests  
from that session for 15 mins then it is logged out.


> Otherwise, straight from the Horde Setup General tab:
> $conf['session']['timeout'] = timeout value
>
> How long should sessions last? 0 means that the session ends when  
> the user
> closes their browser. Set other values with care - see
> http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.session-set-cookie-params.php.


Is that a hard timeout (ie if I set that to 15 does the user get no  
more than 15 minutes regardless?)