If you use Authentik as your SSO solution, you might notice that you are getting logged out every day. At least that’s how I described it at first. Here’s what I did to fix that.
I knew that on all the providers I had created, I had set the token validity to be 24h. So naturally, the first thing I tried was to change that. You can do that by going to each provider you want to change in Applications -> Providers, click the provider, click Edit and update Token validity to hours=186 or days=7 as in the screenshot below:
However, I noticed this was not enough, I was still getting logged out each day. I found that my session was still 24h. You can check that by going to Directory -> Users, clicking the user and then going to the Credentials/Tokens tab and the Sessions submenu (selected by default). You will probably notice the same thing that was happening for me, the expiration is 24h, like in this screenshot:
Ok, so what do we do about it? You need to go to your flow in Flows and Stages -> Flows. For me it’s default-authentication-flow, I assume it’s the same for you if you need this tutorial. Open it, go to the Stage bindings tab and click the Edit Stage button next to the default-authentication-login stage (should be the last one). There you can set the Session duration to days=7 like in the screenshot below.
Now you can logout and back in, and go check that your session expires in 7 days:
Hope this helps, have fun clickity-clacking.
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