After installing cakephp, I ran (with some diffuculties) the blog tutoral from the cakephp cookbook.
It's a very nice tutorial, and it is also a good starting point to start progrmming your own application.
One of the first thing I wanted to do, was the setting of the timeout for the logged in users; cakephp has a very nice and clean structure, so the settings are where they have to be, in the Config directory.
With your favourite text editor, open the app/Config/core.php file, then search for Session. In the related section you can configure the session timeout, for example I set the timeout to 3 minutes writing the following small piece of code:
Configure::write('Session', array(
'timeout' => 3 //3 minutes
));
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