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JIRA 7 Administration Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Patrick Li
Book Image

JIRA 7 Administration Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Patrick Li

Overview of this book

JIRA 7 Administration Cookbook, Second Edition covers all the new major features that provide better prioritizing capabilities, enhanced visibility, and the ability to customize JIRA application to meet your needs. We start by upgrading your existing JIRA instance and working through tasks you can perform at the server level to better maintain it. We then delve deep into adapting JIRA to your organization's needs, starting with the visual elements of setting up custom forms to capturing important data with custom fields and screens, and moving on to ensuring data integrity through defining field behaviors. You'll gain insights into JIRA's e-mail capabilities, including managing outgoing e-mail rules and processing incoming e-mails for automated issue creation. The book contains tips and tricks that will make things easier for you as administrators, such as running scripts to automate tasks, getting easy access to logs, and working with tools to troubleshoot problems. The book concludes with a chapter on JIRA Service Desk, which will enable you to set up and customize your own support portal, work with internal teams to solve problems, and achieve optimized services with SLA.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
JIRA 7 Administration Cookbook - Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
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Preface

Changing the duration of the remember me cookies


When a user selects the Remember my login on this computer option, the user need not re-enter their credentials again from the same browser, unless they are explicitly logged out. In addition, by default, this feature lasts for 30 days.

In this recipe, we will look at how to change the duration, and extend it to the maximum extent possible.

Getting ready

Since we will be making direct changes to a JIRA system file, make sure you create backups for any files that you modify. This recipe will also require a restart of JIRA, so plan this during a time slot that will not affect your users.

How to do it...

Proceed with the following steps to change the remember me cookie duration:

  1. Open the seraph-config.xml file from the JIRA_INSTALL/atlassian-jira/WEB-INF/classes directory in a text editor.

  2. Locate the following lines, and change the value of param-value to the desired number in seconds:

            <init-param>
    
              <param-name&gt...