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

On my Linux distro, this setting can be added to /etc/sysconfig/jenkins

# Pass arbitrary arguments to Jenkins.
# Full option list: java -jar jenkins.war --help
#
JENKINS_ARGS="--sessionTimeout=480"

Subsequently, restart with

sudo /etc/init.d/jenkins restart