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I'm running pfSense+ 25.11 RC 25.11.r.20251118.1708 on a 6100

I casually reported this at https://forum.netgate.com/post/1230376 but since that's a very old thread, and the problem persists on the latest 25.11 snapshots, I'm filing an issue.

I have my session timeout set at 1800 (should be 30h) but I get logged out much sooner than that, seems like 1-2 hours but have not scientifically confirmed the exact time. I don't see anything odd in the system log, and my client IP is not changing. I am using the "admin" account.

I also see /tmp/sess_* files piling up. I sometimes need to clean these out. There can be dozens. Most of them have a 0 byte size, with the exception of one or two files (which I assume to be the active login session)

Something seems to be creating new sessions exactly every minute. I checked my crontab but could not find anything that runs */1 except /usr/sbin/newsyslog

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related docs page: https://docs.netgate.com/pfsense/en/latest/usermanager/settings.html