Hi guys,
We would like to assign role-based timeouts for users for Splunk.
There are a few admin AND non-admin users for whom, we would not like the session to expire by itself.
Are role based or rather, user-specific timeouts possible ?
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If not, is there a way to "abolish" timeouts for all users everywhere ?
Based on the research I have done, I believe that it is possible (by setting the ui_inactivity_timeout to 1, see below)
http://splunk-base.splunk.com/answers/7587/splunk-not-re-authenticating-when-browser-re-loaded
Do you all agree with this observation ?
Based on that answer, I think you are looking for a value for ui_inactivity_timeout of less than 1.
From the docs: http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/5.0/admin/Configureusertimeouts
If ui_inactivity_timeout is set to less than 1, there's no timeout -- the session will stay alive while the browser is open.
I also found this previous answer on the topic:
http://splunk-base.splunk.com/answers/7233/user-specific-browser-session-timeout