IIS caching of credentials

Sluggo

Win2000/IIS caching of credentials

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I would like to know how long Windows 2k caches user credentials. In

particular, I have a web server connected through a rather slow pix-to-pix

VPN to a Win2k domain controller on the main LAN. The web application

server uses a domain user account to run the application. It's obvious that

it doesn't authenticate to the domain for each visit to the web application

server. I understand that the credentials are cached for a certain amount

of time to avoid this repeated round trip for each hit to the webserver.

My questions is--if my assumption is true--what is the default caching

period? Can I change it? How?

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DC G

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Pat

Registered User

Tue Aug 31 12:12:11 CDT 2004

Re:Win2000/IIS caching of credentials

The setting is controlled by a regkey: UserTokenTTL, with a default of 15

minutes. See KB article Q152526.

Pat

"DC Gringo" <dcgringo@visiontechnology.net>wrote in message

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I would like to know how long Windows 2k caches user credentials. In

particular, I have a web server connected through a rather slow pix-to-pix

VPN to a Win2k domain controller on the main LAN. The web application

server uses a domain user account to run the application. It's obvious

that

it doesn't authenticate to the domain for each visit to the web

application

server. I understand that the credentials are cached for a certain amount

of time to avoid this repeated round trip for each hit to the webserver.

My questions is--if my assumption is true--what is the default caching

period? Can I change it? How?

--

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DC G