Supermon 7.4+ Auto LogOut

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Hello everyone,

It’s me again Joe KA6JOE. Does anyone knows how to stop or turn off automatic Logout on Supermon 7.4+? It seems like it logs me out every after 20 or 30 minutes. When I use Allmon3 which is the backside of Supermon 7.4+. it doesn’t happen and it stays logged on indefinitely unti I log out.

As always, your help and reply to my query is greatly appreciated,

Joe Turda de KA6JOE

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Allmon3 has nothing to do with Supermon. Allmon3 is the web view provided with ASL v3. Supermon is another project not related to AllStarLink.

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why are you wanting to stay logged in longer than you need o be?

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Because I don 't want to log on every time I need to switch to a different node. Is there a way to keep it from logging off like the Allmon3?

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is the nodes switching manually to connect or are you wanting to do it automatically?

you can try this
For Supermon, check the value of you "session.gc_maxlifetime= " setting in /etc/php/7.x/apache2/php.ini. The default value is 1440 seconds (24 minutes), which was driving me crazy. For more information, refer to What is the default lifetime of a session?

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Allmon3’s cookie is not perpetual. It’s a session cookie that will be deleted when the browser windows are all closed in that “session”.

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But wouldn’t that affect anything/everything you do in your browser (bank apps, etc…no thanks)…?

Bob
KK6RQ

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no it only effects the session when you are logged into supermon. other windows have no bearing on it

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Did you find a solution to this? It drives me crazy too.

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I would suggest asking on the Supermon list on groups.io. Supermon is not an AllStarLink tool.

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That old code uses PHP sessions, as mentioned above by default PHP sessions close when you close the session (browser).

In PHP settings by default set session.cookie_lifetime to 0 meaning when you close the session, the session ends.

You can adjust that by setting the lifetime to say 7 days by editing either the main PHP config, or the file in the supermon package session.php and adding something like this before the session_start() line

ini_set('session.cookie_lifetime', 60 * 60 * 24 * 7);

HOWEVER as the answer on this ancient Stack post says, you may have to adjust the garbage collection too with session.gc_maxlifetime

I did not test any of this though, none of the PHP projects we use at work use sessions any more its very old tech so your milage may vary.

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