Admin section logs out automatically in Magento

logout, magento, magento-1.6, php

Solution

If you want to increase your login time out then you have to change seesion lifetime time in admin, you can find this field in system->configuration->admin and select security tab and check session lifetime field here you can define your time.

Problem

I have just installed Magento CE 1.6.2 and the most annoying thing right now is that the admin interface automatically logs me out after maybe 3 minutes of inactivity. How do I fix this to either keep me logged in, or to increase the time before log out?

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