Idle_session_timeout is not working

Administrator: installation, configuration
#1

Hi ,

idle_session_timeout is not working as expected.
Explanation : I have setup idle_session_timeout = 600 seconds . but this time is not being changed once user perform any operation. User is logging out after 10 minutes even I am not idle I am performing some operation but still its getting timed out and user is logging out.

#2

Did you put it in the good section? You can check what Hue got in the /dump_config page

https://docs.gethue.com/administrator/configuration/server/#idle-session-timeout

#3

Yes I have put in exact location and I have put idle_session_timeout = 600 seconds

I can see when user logged in the django_session table’s expiry_date column shows after 600 seconds. But this column value is not getting changed as soon as user perform any operation.

Example : Suppose user logged in at 10:00 am and at 10:05 am user perform some operation and then go in idle state.
Behavior : At 10:15 am session should get timeout but it is happening at 10:10 am itself.

#4

Which Hue version? It works for me on master

#5

I am using Hue 4.6 development mode. The last git commit in my checkout is : 6231742eb07eb2e62e6e5eee9db5550a28232c19 I have not checkout post that commit due to development things.

#6

Please upgrade to get ’ * 523f6a4e28 HUE-9120 [core] Fix issue in Hue with closing impala session on logout’ from https://docs.gethue.com/releases/release-notes-4.7.0/

In general we really recommend to use the very latest version as it fixes most of your problems and those are pretty stable.

#7

Hi Romain,

Okay but upgrading to latest version we may loose existing functionality and can get new UI changes. I guess to put request.session.set_expirt_date in middleware files will resolve the issue.