Idle Timeout

[Russ Allbery]

Brian Candler <B.Candler at pobox.com> writes:

> Kerberos is a single sign-on system. You get your TGT at the start of
> the day, and then it logs you in automatically and transparently to each
> service you visit.

> If you want the site to prompt for username/password, either initially
> or after an idle timeout, then I think it will need to do its own HTTP
> Basic authentication.

Or you can use a web authentication system based on or capable of using
Kerberos, like:

    http://webauth.stanford.edu/
    http://cosign.sourceforge.net/

which offer various additional features, such as this sort of idle
timeout.  Kerberos by itself is not going to provide this.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>