Howdy Silverstripers,

Here is my solution to do this from 2012, however - is there a "proper" way to do this?

http://www.silverstripe.org/general-questions/show/19349

Want to set the session time out to more than what it currently is based on the users activity.

Best,
Josh

For the latest version of SilverStripe you can set the Session timeout via the config system and there is also a set_timeout method on Session but this method will be deprecated fairly soon.
The best way would be to do this would be via the yml config.

http://doc.silverstripe.org/framework/en/topics/configuration

There is also a discussion about this on Stackoverflow which makes a good point about the CMS system pinging every 5 minutes to keep the session alive (won't affect the front end users)

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24158545/how-can-i-logout-an-administrator-in-silverstripe-3-1-x-after-period-of-inactivi

Thanks Kirk