Log out after 30 min of inactivity

[popakr]

Hi

Ive noticed that some of our machines start this new behavior that they logout after 30 min of inactivity and it sets itself automatically in security and privacy setting. I did not set this up and I can not find anything in the policies or in configurations. Had anybody else has this problem?

Thank you,
-Popak

[rquigley · Accepted solution]

Hi popakr,

I had this discussion just today on the MacAdmins Slack group, answered by hkabik. They were able to answer my question which was the same as yours.

The issue is if you have a Configuration profile for Login Settings, I believe under Casper versions above 9.8, it ticks a box within it that results in machines logging out after 30 minutes as described above.

Hope this helps!

[MattCrawford]

Hi Popak,

I've noticed the same thing recently too. Started happening after we upgraded the JSS to 9.81, have you recently upgraded also?
We'd perviously been trying to get this behaviour in our student lab environments using the settings Rquigley highlighted above - we could never get this to work and instead did it via scripts.

Could it be that this feature wasn't correctly implemented until 9.81?

[keaton]

Hey all,

This is a product issue (D-009686) we are aware of and hope to include a fix for this in our next release 9.82, which is currently in beta.

We do offer a beta program if you are interested in testing out upcoming releases. You can join by following this link: https://my.jamfsoftware.com/betaProgram.html

We hope that helps!

Thanks,
Keaton
JAMF Support

[dferrara]

@keaton @Crawford I'm confused, I thought this issue was fixed in 9.8? From the Release Notes:

[D-008560] Fixed an issue that caused a configuration profile set to log a user out after a certain amount of time to fail to do so.

[keaton]

Hey @dferrara,

D-008560 was an issue where any amount of time set with the profile did not work, this was resolved in 9.8.

D-009686 which I mentioned above relates to how it automatically checks the box to log out the user after 30 minutes when the JSS is upgraded to 9.8 or later.

Thanks,
Keaton
JAMF Support

[dferrara]

Thanks for the clarification @keaton!

[tcandela]

So would I have to re distribute my config profile login settings now that I am upgraded from 9.51 to 9.81?

I had config profile of 20 minutes of inactivity logout users, it never worked when using 9.51, now I am on 9.81, should it just carry over? I still see the profile on computers but they are not being auto logged out.

Via config profile I have fast user switching on, but when users forget to logout it doesn't auto log them out, that is why I turned on fast user switching

[Caist]

This never worked for me in OS versions 10.10 and below. My 10.11 machines have this working perfectly...

[isterling_goaaa]

I have this box unticked and I'm getting automatically logged out - or at least the system is attempting to do so. Fortunately, one of my apps requires verification before logging me out, but it's still annoying to lock my machine (hot-corner, sleep after 0 seconds) only to come back 45 minutes later and find the system trying to log me out.

[dbrady]

Our config profile is unchecked for the auto logout setting. This works on almost all of our 400 machines. However, we have 4 or 5 that seem to be overriding the profile and keep auto logging out. We have wiped these machines and the problem will come back as soon as they check into the JSS. We are totally stumped. I'm starting to think there is a setting at the user level that is causing this, although the users are not admins on their machines....

[kerouak]

Yup, Same here!
I changed the settings on a users Mac yesterday.
I've just been informed that it's re set itself back to 30 minutes Autologout....
?????????????
Running JSS 9.93

[jimmy-swings]

I've just been informed that it's re set itself back to 30 minutes Autologout

I still see this behaviour in 9.97.

[itsupport_fs]

I now have a few users that this is impacting. I even created a policy specifically to make sure it's disabled with no luck.

[osxadmin]

this is what resolved our issue:
Try combining two payloads "Login Window" and "Security & Privacy" on one configuration profile...
(or do the opposite)

ps: Im on JSS 9.96

[tkemp]

I also have a couple of Macs where users report going to lunch and come back to find their workstation completely logged out. I have Login Window configured and verify that auto logout is unchecked. I have also removed framework and re-enrolled the devices but that did not resolve the issue. Running version 9.99.0-t1494340586. I have tried osxadmin's suggestion to combine Login Window and Security & Privacy payloads, and will see if that fixes it, but it is a little frustrating that I am not seeing the config setting reflected in the workstations behavior.

*UPDATE - After combing the two payloads Login Window and Security & Privacy, as osxadmin suggested, the problem is resolved, and the logout after 30 minutes box is not be re-checked when user logs in. Thanks!

[tkemp]

Duplicate post

[rshim]

I'm having this issue on 10.15.7 Macs, and the configuration profile I have tested is not working to prevent this. My CP looks just like the one osxadmin posted. Is anyone else experiencing this issue?

When the log out box after box is unchecked, it keeps getting checked again.

[jclements]

For what it's worth, I completely re-built my General Settings configuration profile for other reasons and auto-logout magically started working again.