This is an MVC2 website, I am having a problem with a FormsAuthentication ticket. A user timeouts after 30 minutes cannot re-login. During testing, the DateTime.Now.AddMinutes(30) value was set to 5000 and everything was ok, but it has now changed to 30 and that is when then the problem started
From cookie creation
FormsAuthenticationTicket ticket = new FormsAuthenticationTicket(
1,
user.UserID,
DateTime.Now,
DateTime.Now.AddMinutes(30),
false,
"user,user1",
FormsAuthentication.FormsCookiePath);
Web.config file
<authentication mode="Forms">
<forms loginUrl="~/Account.mvc/LogOn" timeout="2880" name=".ASPXFORMSAUTH" />
</authentication>
Does the expiration value in ticket creation need to be >= web.config value?