# Is there a way to set session expiration after a set length of time?

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**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [16. März 2014 um 00:46 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-set-session-expiration-after-a-set-length-of-time/13769 "2014-03-16T00:46:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![joel6890](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bb73d2/32.png) [@joel6890](https://meta.discourse.org/u/joel6890)\
**Post date:** [16. März 2014 um 00:46 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-set-session-expiration-after-a-set-length-of-time/13769/1 "2014-03-16T00:46:31Z")

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Maybe I am missing this in the Admin settings somewhere – but is there a way to set session expiration times so that if a user is not active for a specified length of time they will have to log in again? I would use such a feature if it were available.

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