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EP 7.1: Session timeout with Kerberos

Former Member

‎02-17-2011 10:00 AM

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Hi all,

We want to plan timeout for the portal such that it happens before the backend session timeout (which is set to default 30 mins now). It so happens that services accessed from the backend times out even when the portal still remains active. Setting parameter SessionTimeout at Visual Admin for portal might help.

Here is my concern.

Right now for the QAS timeouts we could use 25mins and 30 mins for portal and backend respectively. Considering that in case of PRD systems, the time out will be like just 5 mins, is it advisable to keep logging out users in the portal for an idle time of less than 5 mins?

We are going to have Kerberos for SSO in the portal. Will this have any repercussions if we set the value of sessiontimout to say 4.5 mins? Is logging off users so frequently advisable when we have kerberos?

Thanks and regards,

Rosun

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Former Member

‎04-04-2011 5:11 PM

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Hello Rosun,

The kerberos ticket default lifetime is 10h so the user on the client should be able to use this ticket to access the resource

again without re-authentication, when sessions are closed because of timeout occurs.

Kind regards, Istvan Elek