IdP 3 password flow login page goes stale

[Cantor, Scott]

On 8/24/17, 3:52 PM, "users on behalf of Michael Nielsen" <users-bounces at shibboleth.net on behalf of michael.nielsen at cedargate.com> wrote:

> If a user lingers on the login page for too long (> 10 minutes, < 15 minutes) and then enters a user name and password, the
> authentication proceeds but doesn’t end up at the correct location on the SP.  After 15 minutes, the authentication fails.

Ending up at the right place is an SP function, it isn't anything the IdP influences. If the SP is Shibboleth, one of the options for RelayState is in-memory and I believe that does expire eventually, I don't know offhand how long it takes by default but it could be 10 minutes.
 
On the IdP side, the issue is flat out controlled by Java servlet session behavior, that's all that governs whether a webflow conversation stays intact or not. That's up to you to control.

Neither is really at all connected to the IdP itself or any of its settings, though servlet session timeouts can be manipulated in web.xml if desired. Normally a global default change is good enough and doesn't need to be set there.

> One theory was that the login attempt gets bound to an LDAP thread when the page is presented, then the LDAP thread is
> reaped due to inactivity, since my idp.pool.LDAP.idleTime is 900.  That, in my sketchy view of the function of the IdP,
> could explain authentication failing after 15 minutes.

No connection at all, there is no stateful relationship to an LDAP server ever.
 
-- Scott