Setting session timeout period with Spring Security 3.0

Question

I am using Spring Security 3.0 to authenticate with an LDAP server and I cannot figure out to set my own session timeout period. I believe that the default is 30 minutes but I need to set it to longer than that

Reamonn

Answer 1

You can either set the session timeout (say 60 minutes) for all sessions in web.xml:

<session-config>
  <session-timeout>60</session-timeout>
</session-config>

or on a per-session basis using

session.setMaxInactiveInterval(60*60);

the latter you might want to do in a authorizationSuccessHandler.

<form-login authentication-success-handler-ref="authenticationSuccessHandler"/>

Cristiano

session-timeout, that was it! Thanks a lot – Reamonn

Thanks session.setMaxInactiveInterval(60*60*24); This code sets 24 hour session time. – Do

@Cristiano this implementation throwing msg stating "Full authentication is required to access this resource" can we change this message ? – Negress

server.session.timeout= # Session timeout in seconds - for Spring Boot – Dwaindwaine

session-config - should be added into web.xml file – Handcraft

What if I am using spring boot and dont have web.xml? – Rubeola

Answer 2

If you are using Spring Boot you can do so by adding the following to the application.properties file:

server.session.cookie.max-age=<your_value_in_seconds>

Demeanor