Win2000/IIS caching of credentials

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DC Gringo

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?
 
The setting is controlled by a regkey: UserTokenTTL, with a default of 15
minutes. See KB article Q152526.

Pat
 
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