Thanks.

It's all for internal R&D and testing. I had set a high ticket lifetime to
prevent the need for users to have to type their password so often.

Did this change from FreeIPA 4.6 / earlier version of MIT kerberos? This
used to work fine in 4.6.... All I had to do is modify the "max life" in
the web UI and it Just Worked ®

On Mon, Oct 20, 2025 at 10:41 AM Alexander Bokovoy <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On Пан, 20 кас 2025, Russell Jones via FreeIPA-users wrote:
> >I have found in the kdc.conf file where max_life and max_renewable_life
> are
> >defined as 7d and 14d respectively for my realm. Changing these values in
> >the Web UI don't seem to touch this file at all.....
>
> This is not supported.
>
> There are workarounds by changing the KDC configuration manually as
> described in the discussion in
> https://github.com/freeipa/freeipa/pull/6223 but ultimately the code in
> MIT Kerberos KDC will prevent us from making it fully customizable.
> Changing that code upstream is not considered a priority for upstream.
>
> Security-wise, it is really not recommended to have tickets valid for
> long time. If you are after automated renewal of Kerberos tickets,
> better learn how to integrate gssproxy into your workflow.
>
>
>
> --
> / Alexander Bokovoy
> Sr. Principal Software Engineer
> Security / Identity Management Engineering
> Red Hat Limited, Finland
>
>
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