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Re: Maximum ticket lifetimes?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christian Pfaffel)
Mon Nov 22 05:53:55 2004

To: Tillman Hodgson <tillman@seekingfire.com>
From: Christian Pfaffel <flash@itp.tu-graz.ac.at>
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Date: 22 Nov 2004 11:51:57 +0100
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Tillman Hodgson <tillman@seekingfire.com> writes:

> On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 at 08:59:41AM -0500, Eric Jonas wrote:
> > I have deployed an MIT kerberos KDC in my lab, and am attempting to
> > lengthen the ticket lifetime to a full day (this is using debian stable,
> > kerberos version  1.2.4-5woody6).
> > 
> > I've edited  /etc/krb5kdc/kdc.conf to have max_life = 24h
> > 
> > and via kadmin:
> > modprinc -maxlife "1 day" krbtgt/MWL.AI.MIT.EDU@MWL.AI.MIT.EDU
> > modprinc -maxlife "1 day" jonas@MWL.AI.MIT.EDU
> > 
> > getprinc shows that both of these were successful. Then I restarted the
> > kdc and kdc-admin processes on the kdc.
> 
> Between this paragraph and the next, your testing methods and problem
> description appear to be missing :-)
> 
> How are you calling kinit? (e.g., `kinit -l24h`)? What is the output of
> klist?
> 

If You are using kinit for testing it might be valueable for You to
now that the default ticket lifetime is coded to be 10h. So without a
parameter (i.e. -l24h) You will always get 10h.

Christian

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