Unable to get max_life to work over 24 hours

[Tony Lill]

You're missing the fact that the max life is hard coded, and any
suggestion in the documentation that it's configurable is a bald-faced
lie! If you want 3 days, you'll have to compile your own.
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Kreitzer, Ray <Ray.Kreitzer at dcsg.com> wrote:


    Ray> I am running MIT Kerberos v5-1.2.8.   I am attempting to obtain a ticket
    Ray> with a life of  3 days.  I have set the max_life = 3d in the kdc.conf and
    Ray> have set the maxlife in the principal to 3d.  I run the kinit -l 3d but it
    Ray> seems I can never get a ticket for more than 24 hours.  What am I missing?  

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