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

[daryl herzmann]

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