Admin Web UI session timeout

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I would like to increase the Admin Web UI session timeout in OpenVPN AS--i.e. the time you can leave a page in https://<server>/admin idle before it asks you to log in again. The docs at https://docs.openvpn.net/command-line/managing-settings-for-the-web-services-from-the-command-line/ indicate that this timeout can be changed from its default of 30 minutes by setting sa.session_expire and that "This setting can be altered to any value in seconds."

Setting sa.session_expire lower does work. If I set it to 300, sessions time out after 300 seconds (five minutes) idle time. But the upper limit seems to be one hour. If I set it to 18000 or 36000 (five or ten hours), it times out after an hour.

This happens on OpenVPN AS 2.5.2 and 2.1.12, and on other versions at least as far back as 2.1.3 (the first version I used). I am using the Hyper-V OpenVPN AS Virtual Appliance (Ubuntu 16.04).

Is there any way this limit can be increased?

authenticx

disregard as i posted her in error

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Is there no answer for this? Will it be fixed in a future version?

The Johan

It will first have to be reproduced, and it's currently not a very high priority item, sorry. We'll look at it when we can and get back to you, if we can see the problem here as well. That setting you found is the official method of setting the timeout.