What is a login timeout?
CS_LOGIN_TIMEOUT defines the length of time, in seconds, that Client-Library waits for a login response when making a connection attempt. The default timeout value is 60 seconds. ...
Why do logins timeout?
1 Answer. As far as I know, it is mostly used as an additional mechanism to avoid session fixation attacks. For instance, in a company a user goes for a coffee and leaves the computer on, and then the hacker sees the opportunity and manually sets in the Browser URL the current login session ID (or just copies it).