Session Timeout

[xander]

Please excuse my ignorance, but where would I look and what should I do to change the default session timeout? I've had several occaisions where I've lost a significant amput of writing becasu when I submitted my post, I had automatically been logged out.

Any help would be appreciated.

[jhermanns]

if you have the priviliges in a .htaccess file or directly in the php.ini file