Assumed user timeout

Oct 22 05 12:01 pm

According to the help file: "WinGate will display the status of their connection in grey as assumed for thirty seconds before it will disappear from the Activity tab."

I know that once the user is authenticated it shows the active pages that they're currently viewing. Once they stop using the internet and IE is closed they're bumped down to assumed for 30 seconds in case they fire up IE again they don't have to reauthenticate. Is there anyway to set this limit up.

I would like to have at least a five minute window where the user is assumed so in the event that within the five minutes you would not have to reauthenticate. I searched through the settings and registry but did not find anything pertinant.

Thank you

Oct 25 05 9:58 am

Hi

this timeout is not currently user-configurable. It is hard-coded into WinGate. I've just added a registry override for this, it will be in the next release.

Regards

Adrien

Oct 25 05 9:59 am

I look forward to the release.

Oct 25 05 10:10 am

gr8, thats a setting i'd like to play with also.

wyld

Oct 25 05 11:15 pm

OK, just so you know how to use it when it gets released. there are 2 new registry settings.

HKLM\Software\Qbik Software\WinGate\Settings

MachineTimeout REG_DWORD :
lingering time in seconds, default 30. Set to 0 if you want the machine to disappear straight away.

MachineTimeoutAuthAction REG_DWORD:

what to do when going into lingering

0 - downgrade user to assumed if authenticated
1 - leave machine at same username / auth level (good for POP before SMTP)
2 - set machine to Guest / no auth.

Adrien

Oct 26 05 2:43 am

great, if this setting does what i hope it does, then thats one less headache i'll face in future.

wyld

Jun 22 06 3:05 am

Has this been implemented in your latest software version?
We installed it and got a lot of problems of users never disconnecting, even after a machine reboot (client).
I'd need to adjust this setting to drop the auth level to guest after the 30 secs timeout.
If any other similar and configurable option has been implemented in the meantime, it would be great, just let me know it!
Thanks, best regards

fabio

adrien wrote:OK, just so you know how to use it when it gets released. there are 2 new registry settings.

HKLM\Software\Qbik Software\WinGate\Settings

MachineTimeout REG_DWORD :
lingering time in seconds, default 30. Set to 0 if you want the machine to disappear straight away.

MachineTimeoutAuthAction REG_DWORD:

what to do when going into lingering

0 - downgrade user to assumed if authenticated
1 - leave machine at same username / auth level (good for POP before SMTP)
2 - set machine to Guest / no auth.

Adrien

Jun 23 06 2:48 am

It was released a couple of versions ago - 6.1 I think

Adrien