10.4 Customizing the Emergency Access Cache Update

Perform the following steps to customize the Emergency Access cache update.

  1. On the Windows Start menu, click Start > Run to display the Run dialog box.

  2. Type regedit, then click OK to open the Registry Editor.

  3. Browse to the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Novell\MsPssGina.

  4. Create a new DWORD value and name the DWORD value as EAMaxCacheRetryCount.

  5. Right-click EAMaxCacheRetryCount and select Modify. In Value Data, specify the time in minutes.

  6. Create a new DWORD value and name the DWORD value as EACacheRetryTimeout.

  7. Right-click EACacheRetryTimeout and select Modify. In Value Data, specify the time in minutes.

    See the following examples to understand these registry entries.

    • EACacheRetryTimeout = 5 Client Login Extension attempts to update the cache once in five minutes.

    • EAMaxCacheRetryCount = 0 Client Login Extension attempts to update the cache only during login and no attempt after login.

    • EAMaxCacheRetryCount = 5 Client Login Extension attempts five times to update the cache with time interval specified in the EAMaxCacheRetryCount registry.

    NOTE:If you do not specify these registries, the following default values are considered for cache update.

    EAMaxCacheRetryCount = 0

    EACacheRetryTimeout = 5 minutes