How to increase cakephp Auth component session expire time

Auth component shares Session class

For Cakephp3

At config/app.php we can set the timeout.

'Session' => [
    'defaults' => 'php',        
    'timeout'=>24*60//in minutes
],

For Cakephp2

in your Config/core.php

Configure::write('Session', array(
    'defaults' => 'php',
    'timeout' => 31556926 //increase time in seconds
));

Auth component shares Session class. For CakePHP 3 you can set session timeout at config/app.php like below:

'Session' => [
        'defaults' => 'php',
        'timeout'  => 1440, /*24 hours*/
    ],

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