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authorVolker Lendecke <vlendec@samba.org>2004-12-17 09:35:54 +0000
committerGerald (Jerry) Carter <jerry@samba.org>2007-10-10 10:53:40 -0500
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r4252: Comment clarification from Love Hörnquist Åstrand <lha@stacken.kth.se>.
Thanks, Volker
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diff --git a/source/lib/afs.c b/source/lib/afs.c
index 8688fde6b1c..d3921ab9be7 100644
--- a/source/lib/afs.c
+++ b/source/lib/afs.c
@@ -124,9 +124,13 @@ static BOOL afs_createtoken(const char *username, const char *cell,
p += 8;
- /* Ticket lifetime. We fake everything here, so go as long as
- possible. This is in 5-minute intervals, so 255 is 21 hours
- and 15 minutes.*/
+ /* This is a kerberos 4 life time. The life time is expressed
+ * in units of 5 minute intervals up to 38400 seconds, after
+ * that a table is used up to lifetime 0xBF. Values between
+ * 0xC0 and 0xFF is undefined. 0xFF is defined to be the
+ * infinite time that never expire.
+ *
+ * So here we cheat and use the infinite time */
*p = 255;
p += 1;