disabling login every 1800 seconds on phpmyadmin

[kkruecke]

From /usr/share/doc/phpmyamdin/Documentation.txt:

$cfg['LoginCookieValidity'] integer [number of seconds]
Define how long is login cookie valid. Please note that php configuration option session.gc_maxlifetime might limit session validity and if session is lost, login cookie is also invalidated. So it is good idea to set session.gc_maxlifetime at least as high is $cfg['LoginCookieValidity'] is set.

Solution:

Edit /etc/phpmyadmin/config.inc.php and add something like

ini_set('session.gc_maxlifetime', 72000); // put after <?php

// snip . . 

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['LoginCookieValidity'] = 72000; // 20 hours
$cfg['LoginCookieValidity'] = 72000; //not sure if this is also needed