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

it also seems possible to set it using groovy console:

import org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler;
Stapler.getCurrentRequest().getSession().setMaxInactiveInterval(TIME_IN_SECONDS)

But I guess it will only be available for current session

Answer 2

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"

Answer 3

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

Update for 1.6

If passing in as an arg use --sessionTimeout=<minutes>

Answer 4

Jenkins uses Jetty, and Jetty's default timeout is 30 minutes. This is independent of authentication settings -- I use Active Directory but it's still this setting that affects timeouts.

You can override the timeout by passing an argument --sessionTimeout=<minutes> to the Jenkins init script, or -DsessionTimeout=<minutes> to the .war file. For example:

# Set the session timeout to 1 week
$ java -jar jenkins.war --sessionTimeout=10080

Alternatively, you can edit Jenkins' <jenkinsHome>/.jenkins/war/WEB-INF/web.xml and add explicitly set it:

<session-config>
  <!-- one hour -->
  <session-timeout>60</session-timeout>
</session-config>

According to Oracle's docs you can set this to 0 to disable timeouts altogether.

To find out the current value for timeouts, you can use the Groovy console provided in Jenkins:

import org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler;
Stapler.getCurrentRequest().getSession().getMaxInactiveInterval() / 60

On my instance, this shows Result: 30.

Answer 5

This version of Jenkins 1.567 also has the enable auto refresh option so it somehow keeps refreshing the session and I never get logged out. It works for me...

Answer 6

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