Hey James,

Regarding Easydiscuss user login session is actually follow as what you set from backend global configuration Session Lifetime setting, you can refer on my attached screenshot below.

As long as your browser still open, that user will still logged in.

Thanks for your reply. I thought this would be the case, I'm currently testing my forum and left a user logged in yesterday, and when I came back this morning it was still showing active in joomla and was still active viewing one of the forum posts I left it on, so doesn't seem to be logging them off after the set time (which is 200 minutes in my settings), any other settings i can possibly try or is this the only option? The session handler is set to 'database' not 'php' so not sure if this makes a difference?

Even if the browser is still open is it possible to log them off? Thanks

Yes, that is only option in Joomla, but it might be related with your existing 3rd party plugin which can reset the user login session data .

The session handler is set to 'database' not 'php' so not sure if this makes a difference?

To be honestly, I am not really familiar with this, but base on what i know is 'database' option for those user session data will stored in this table #__session.

If you set to 'PHP' option, it will stored those user session data to text files on your server, but i am not sure what is the different between this, perhaps you can try set to 'database' option and see how it goes.

Thanks Arlex, I'll experiment and post back

You're welcome James