CWebUser setState authTimeout

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
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I am trying to change the inactive logout time for certain users to a longer time. By default a user has 4 hours of inactive time before they are logged out. I would like to change that to 6 hours for certain user. Below is my user components in protected/config/main.php




'user' => array (

	// set auto logout timeouts

	'absoluteAuthTimeout' => 60*60*24, // Log out after 24 hours regardless of activity

	'authTimeout' => 60*60*4, // logout after 4 hours of inactivity

	'loginUrl' => array('site/index'),

	'class' => 'WebUser'

),

I have a sandboxcontroller that I use for testing. this is what I have in /protected/controlers/SandboxController.php




public function actionUserInfo(){

    echo "<pre>";

    var_dump(Yii::app()->user);

    echo "</pre>";


    //Yii::app()->user->authTimeout = 20000;

    Yii::app()->user->setState("authTimeout2", 20000);


    echo "<pre>";

    var_dump(Yii::app()->user);

    echo "</pre>";


}

The following will output:

If I switch the commented out code:




    Yii::app()->user->authTimeout = 20000;

    //Yii::app()->user->setState("authTimeout2", 20000);

And I get

but If I refresh the page I get the same result, so the new value for ‘authTimeout’ is not saving. How do I save a new ‘authTimeout’ for a user?