From 66df378c1093d699c43133bccbdc3eb5ec695159 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kevin Hunter Kesling Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2024 16:01:14 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Document auth caching implementation [sc-33479] --- docs/endpoints/multi_user.rst | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/endpoints/multi_user.rst b/docs/endpoints/multi_user.rst index 91f70f229..fbba0e585 100644 --- a/docs/endpoints/multi_user.rst +++ b/docs/endpoints/multi_user.rst @@ -711,6 +711,13 @@ Administrators can create new authentication policies via the `Globus Auth API occurred to satisfy the policy. Setting this will also set ``high_assurance`` to ``true``. + .. attention:: + + For performance reasons, the web-service caches lookups for 60s. Pragmatically, + this means that smallest timeout that Compute supports is 1 minute, even though it + is possible to set required authorizations for high assurance policies to smaller + time intervals. + Apply an Existing Authentication Policy ---------------------------------------