[OpenAFS] Is infinite ticket lifetime possible?

Chris Crowther chris@jm-crowther.co.uk
Thu, 05 May 2005 11:44:59 +0100


Alvin Chan wrote:

>  From the document, the maximum ticket lifetime for authentication is 
> 720 hours. But what if I want the ticket never expire? Is it possible to 
> do this?

	As far as I'm aware: no; for the simple reason that you shouldn't be 
doing it.  If something needs to have permissions for extended amounts 
of time the chances are it's a server or dedicate host of some variety; 
you should be using a machine ACL instead.

> Thanks in advance,
> Alvin Chan

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Chris Crowther
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