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

For Ubuntu:

nano /etc/default/jenkins

Append to JENKINS_ARGS at the end of the file:

JENKINS_ARGS="--webroot=/var/cache/$NAME/war --httpPort=$HTTP_PORT --sessionTimeout=1440 --sessionEviction=43200"