Increase the Jenkins login timeout

Question

Does anyone know how to increase the the timeout window before Jenkins logs out a user? I\'m looking to raise it to 1 day or so.

I work in and out jenkins all day a

Answer 1

As of 1.528 you can use the --sessionTimeout parameter when starting up jenkins via an init script. If starting the war, pass in -DsessionTimeout=

Update for 1.6

If passing in as an arg use --sessionTimeout=