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Yuttakarn
New Member
January 21, 2025
Question

Outbound firewall authentication with Microsoft Entra ID Session time out very day

  • January 21, 2025
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how to fix this

i use SSO for au then via Microsoft Entra ID to allow access network

but when disconnect or skip day need to login again

can we keep session I mean no need to login again

https://docs.fortinet.com/document/fortigate/7.6.1/administration-guide/33053/outbound-firewall-authentication-with-microsoft-entra-id-as-a-saml-idp

3 replies

Stephen_G
Staff & Editor
Staff & Editor
January 23, 2025

Hi Yuttakarn,

 

Thank you for using the Community Forum. I will seek to get you an answer or help. We will reply to this thread with an update as soon as possible.


Thanks,

Stephen_G - Fortinet Community Team
Stephen_G
Staff & Editor
Staff & Editor
January 28, 2025

Hi Yuttakarn,

 

We're still looking to get you an answer. Check back soon!

Stephen_G - Fortinet Community Team
Stephen_G
Staff & Editor
Staff & Editor
January 31, 2025

From @syadav:

 

It sounds like you want to keep the users logged in for more than a day without ask for reauthentication.

 

Now, the auth-timeout of FortiGate can be increased to 1440 minutes (24 hours). Considering you are using auth-timeout-type as idle-timeout, it might work.

Stephen_G - Fortinet Community Team
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