[Koha-devel] Clarify timeout syspref?

[Chris Cormack]

On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 7:15 PM, paul POULAIN <paul.poulain at biblibre.com> wrote:
> Wagner, Jane a écrit :
>> Can someone clarify the timeout system preference?  In the 3.0.x manual
>> site, it says
>>
> Hi Jane,
>> Inactivity timeout for cookies authentication (in seconds).  This
>> preference applies to both the staff client and the OPAC.
>>
>> Default Value: 12000000
>>
>> If I'm doing the math right, the default value translates to an
>> extremely large number of hours.  Is seconds right for this value?  Or
>> should it be milliseconds?
>>
> nope, it's seconds.
>> If seconds is correct, can someone give me background on why the default
>> is so large, and why the manual says it shouldn't be changed after
>> installation?  I don't want to make changes here until I'm sure of what
>> it's doing.
>>
> I really don't know. On french, doc, this is not specified, and nothing
> justify this. Just don't put 1 or 2, as in 1 second, you'll be
> disconnected very quickly ;-)
>

I think at some point someone probably complained they were getting
disconnected too much so it got set to a really high value.

Chris