ticket_lifetime param in krb5.conf - what's it used for?

[Sam Hartman]

>>>>> "Peter" == Peter McFarlane <petermc at andersenit.com.au> writes:

    Peter> Hi, Please excuse my ignorance, but what is the
    Peter> ticket_lifetime parameter in krb5.conf (in [libdefaults]
    Peter> section) used for? The documentation for krb5.conf doesn't
    Peter> say anything about it, and I can't find any references to
    Peter> it when I search the source code (for 1.3.1).

Nothing.  We discovered during a documentation review for 1.3.1 that a
lot of config files floating around had this parameter, and that our
old documentation described it, but the code didn't actually implement
it.