From: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
To: Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@kurilemu.de>
Cc: pgsql-www@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: wiki login expiration
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2026 11:35:00 -0700
Message-ID: <20260911183500.ec@rfd.leadboat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aqPVMKEBK-hC0ySO@alvherre.pgsql>
References: <20260909024729.b1@rfd.leadboat.com>
<aqPVMKEBK-hC0ySO@alvherre.pgsql>
On Fri, Sep 11, 2026 at 12:28:32PM +0200, Álvaro Herrera wrote:
> On 2026-Sep-08, Noah Misch wrote:
> > Can we make wiki logins persist for substantially longer? wiki.postgresql.org
> > appears to require a new click on the "log in" link every hour or so. The
> > cookie itself has a 30-day expiry, so I gather the server is expiring its side
> > of the state faster. GPT thinks $wgObjectCacheSessionExpiry is the relevant
> > mediawiki setting. Perhaps 30d (86400*30) is a reasonable setting?
>
> I changed this to 7 days; the documentation
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:$wgObjectCacheSessionExpiry
> explains that the logout occurs if you're _inactive_ during that period,
> so this should be ergonomic enough for most people, I hope. I'm not
> completely sure if the service restart I did is enough for the setting
> to take.
Thanks. Since your email, I've had the wiki login expire twice more in the
same browser, so I don't think the change has taken effect yet.
I agree logout after 7d inactive is plenty generous.
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