Increase the Jenkins login timeout

问题:

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 and we keep getting logged out between running of jobs. Added to this frustration, the 'stay logged in' checkbox doesn't seem to work either.

回答1:

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.

回答2:

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>

回答3:

As of Jenkins version 2.107.2 you'll want to include sessionEviction

For example to keep people logged in for 24 hours and 12 hours of inactivity:

--sessionTimeout=1440 --sessionEviction=43200

If you don't specify sessionEviction people who close the tab will get logged out after 30 minutes.

回答4:

it also seems possible to set it using grovy console:

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

But I guess it will only be available for current session

回答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...