Cornell Secure File Transfer: System Logged User Out of Secure File Transfer

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Users are logged out of Cornell Secure File Transfer after 30 minutes of inactivity.

If you are in the middle of a file upload, you will not need to login again until after the upload completes.

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Cornell Secure File Transfer: System Logged User Out of Secure File Transfer

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