User automatic logout on inactivity

[betatim]

@guillaumeeb

So just wanted to ask if someone had an idea on how to put such a verification on Jupyterhub side?

You can implement a form of “shutdown after inactivity” on the server side using the approach mentioned in this post User automatic logout on inactivity - #4 by kevin-bates. We use this for mybinder.org. However this is a config in the jupyter notebook server, not the JupyterHub server.

The config snippet for mybinder.org is here.

The idea is that a kernel can detect that it is “inactive” and shut itself down. This works even if a JupyterLab frontend is connected to the kernel. Once the kernel has shutdown the network traffic stops which allows JupyterHubs culler to detect that there is no more activity and then culls the user/session.

[ItamarShDev]

Hey! any news on the extension repo?

[guillaumeeb]

Finally, here it is :

CNES/autologout-labextension

[jagdeesh]

Hi Guillaumeeb,

Thanks for sharing this but when i try to install it says ‘not a valid npm package’. Would this be available in the npm registry ?

[guillaumeeb]

Hi @jagdeesh, we are not planning on working on the release of an npm package for this… But you can easily install it with a git clone and jupyter labextension install.

[supermpm]

Great post! It was very useful for me, thanks.