(SOLVED!) Extend Web GUI token timeout (23.10-RC.1)

[Kasazn]

Can anyone help me with extending the web UI timeout limit? I used to use these commands and it worked before on previous versions of SCALE.


sed -i 's/auth.generate_token",\[300/auth.generate_token",\[129600/g' /usr/share/truenas/webui/*.js


https://tomschlick.com/blog/2022/06/28/extend-truenas-web-ui-session-timeout/

Appreciate if anyone can guide me as I'd like to leave my session open without having to relogin every 5 minutes as my PC and ZFS pool are all encrypted and secure.

 

[Kris Moore]

We have an option to set that now:

Sessions Settings Widget

The Sessions widget displays a list of all active sessions, including the user who initiated the session and what time it started. It also displays the Token Lifetime setting for your current session. It allows administrators to manage other active sessions and to configure the token lifetime...

www.truenas.com

 

[Kasazn]

My bad for failing to read the changelogs! Appreciate the help! Thanks!

 

[Trevor68]

um, where do we find that???

 

[Kasazn]

um, where do we find that???

System Settings > Advanced > Sessions

EDIT: Attached snip for future readers of this forum thread.

 

[Trevor68]

nice, doubled mine

 

[NugentS]

Err - where is the configure button?
I am on TrueNAS-SCALE-22.12.4

 

[Trevor68]

I imagine you get one once you update to Cobia

 

[Kasazn]

View attachment 70915
Err - where is the configure button?
I am on TrueNAS-SCALE-22.12.4

Cobia only, on the RC release as per my title.

 

[NugentS]

Oops

 

[Brandito]

Is there a hard limit to how long you can set this?

 

[VanDuncan]

From what I could gather from the following link, the maximum is a around 20 hours:

Sessions Settings Widget

The Sessions widget displays a list of all active sessions, including the user who initiated the session and what time it started. It also displays the Token Lifetime setting for your current session. It allows administrators to manage other active sessions and to configure the token lifetime...

www.truenas.com

The default lifetime setting is 300 seconds, or five minutes.
The minimum value allowed is 30 seconds.
The maximum is 2147482 seconds, or 20 hours, 31 minutes, and 22 seconds.

But there must be a typo because 20 hours is 72000 sec
Anyway, I tried with 72000, and some values under, but it still doesn't work.
It seems to extend the timeout above the default 5 minutes, but I'm still not sure what the new real max is.

 

[Brandito]

From what I could gather from the following link, the maximum is a around 20 hours:

Sessions Settings Widget

The Sessions widget displays a list of all active sessions, including the user who initiated the session and what time it started. It also displays the Token Lifetime setting for your current session. It allows administrators to manage other active sessions and to configure the token lifetime...

www.truenas.com

But there must be a typo because 20 hours is 72000 sec
Anyway, I tried with 72000, and some values under, but it still doesn't work.
It seems to extend the timeout above the default 5 minutes, but I'm still not sure what the new real max is.

I found the same issue, even set to the max, which should be ~25 days, I get logged out after a few hours max. In bluefin I used the command

Code:

sed -i 's/auth.generate_token",\[300/auth.generate_token",\[129600/g' /usr/share/truenas/webui/*.js

and it worked great. It's nice to see the option baked in now, however it doesn't seem to actually work, and now neither does the original work around.

 

[Imran]

I found the same issue, even set to the max, which should be ~25 days, I get logged out after a few hours max. In bluefin I used the command

Code:

sed -i 's/auth.generate_token",\[300/auth.generate_token",\[129600/g' /usr/share/truenas/webui/*.js

and it worked great. It's nice to see the option baked in now, however it doesn't seem to actually work, and now neither does the original work around.

Same here. It doesn't work for me either. Did you find a workaround?

 

[Whattteva]

We have an option to set that now:

Sessions Settings Widget

The Sessions widget displays a list of all active sessions, including the user who initiated the session and what time it started. It also displays the Token Lifetime setting for your current session. It allows administrators to manage other active sessions and to configure the token lifetime...

www.truenas.com

I'm guessing this is only available on SCALE and not on CORE?

 

[vampirebyte]

From what I could gather from the following link, the maximum is a around 20 hours:

Sessions Settings Widget

The Sessions widget displays a list of all active sessions, including the user who initiated the session and what time it started. It also displays the Token Lifetime setting for your current session. It allows administrators to manage other active sessions and to configure the token lifetime...

www.truenas.com

But there must be a typo because 20 hours is 72000 sec
Anyway, I tried with 72000, and some values under, but it still doesn't work.
It seems to extend the timeout above the default 5 minutes, but I'm still not sure what the new real max is.

indeed confusing, the max value validation in the field seems to be completely wrong. If I enter for example 86400, 24 hours, I get an empty time in the GUI:

Should we fill a bug... somewhere?

 

[MrT_134]

@vampirebyte thanks for finding that issue! You can report this directly to the TrueNAS project using the NAS project Jira Issue tracker at https://ixsystems.atlassian.net/jira/software/c/projects/NAS/issues (bug reporting guidance).

 

[vampirebyte]

Thank you, if anybody wants to follow-up or add details: https://ixsystems.atlassian.net/browse/NAS-126753

Also reported this via the Feedback link on the documentation page.

 

[stergio]

Hey all, Great find - the timeout has been bugging me since upgrading to Cobia recently. This is nothing compared to Bluefin that had a hoard of other issues I could not deal with anymore - story for another thread.

Question - Even though the time out is not displayed in the GUI - does the timeout when set to 24hrs (86400 seconds) work, and it is just not displayed on the GUI? Just upgraded to TrueNAS-SCALE-23.10.0 and tinkered with this setting - I guess we will see.