# User authentication idle timeout. 3.0

**URL:** <https://community.graylog.org/t/user-authentication-idle-timeout-3-0/11828>\
**Category:** Graylog Central (peer support)\
**Created:** [September 4, 2019, 3:06am UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/user-authentication-idle-timeout-3-0/11828 "2019-09-04T03:06:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![PXIT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/fbc32d/32.png) [@PXIT](https://community.graylog.org/u/PXIT)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2019, 3:06am UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/user-authentication-idle-timeout-3-0/11828/1 "2019-09-04T03:06:38Z")

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Hi,

I notice per user on the web portal you can enter an idle time out value although is there a way to change the default value of 8 hours to a time of your choosing. We have multiple users that login and it would be advantageous to set a new default time to adhere to our security policies than to tediously change this value for each and future user accounts.

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**Author:** ![jan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.graylog.org/jan/32/11_2.png) [@jan](https://community.graylog.org/u/jan)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2019, 6:17am UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/user-authentication-idle-timeout-3-0/11828/2 "2019-09-04T06:17:43Z")

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you can set that when you create the user. The other option would be to make a mongoDB query to set that for all existing users at once.

But changing the default is currently not possible. You might want to create a feature request:

> **[Graylog2/graylog2-server](https://github.com/Graylog2/graylog2-server/issues)**
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**Author:** ![PXIT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/fbc32d/32.png) [@PXIT](https://community.graylog.org/u/PXIT)\
**Post date:** [September 4, 2019, 9:06pm UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/user-authentication-idle-timeout-3-0/11828/3 "2019-09-04T21:06:32Z")

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Thanks Jan,

Appreciate the quick response.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/graylog/original/3X/c/7/c7c09c6b5099570133d6502b83f50ba4430de5b6.png) [@system](https://community.graylog.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 18, 2019, 9:10pm UTC](https://community.graylog.org/t/user-authentication-idle-timeout-3-0/11828/4 "2019-09-18T21:10:08Z")

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Closed on September 18, 2019, 9:10pm UTC

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