Documentation for Shibboleth SP timeouts?

[James W. Anderson]

The documentation in the Shibboleth wiki is somewhat obtuse when it comes to sessions and session timeouts. Does anyone have a PDF or other source of documentation that better explains all the settings that influence session timeouts, both from the SP side and from the IdP/assertion side?

I thought that if I set timeout=1800 in shibboleth2.xml that my sessions would not timeout until 1800 seconds/30 minutes of inactivity. This was not the case. I discovered that my Identity Provider dictated the duration of the session, and that the session timeout is absolute: if the IdP says the session timeout is 30 minutes, then I have 30 minutes from the time I authenticate, regardless of whether I'm active the whole time. This is based on what I see when I look at /Shibboleth.sso/Session-the session duration counts down regardless of whether I'm active.

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James W. Anderson
Cloud and Integration Architect
The Coca-Cola Company
404.676.4914
jamesanderson at coca-cola.com<mailto:jamesanderson at coca-cola.com>





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