From 2f58f214a9cb4d5ae54991438ab73ee944cb8f99 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Larry Gregory <larry.gregory@elastic.co>
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2024 14:56:13 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] [7.17] Fix documentation for session lifespan default
 (#198065) (#198077)

# Backport

This will backport the following commits from `main` to `7.17`:
- [Fix documentation for session lifespan default
(#198065)](https://github.com/elastic/kibana/pull/198065)

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---
 docs/settings/security-settings.asciidoc | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/docs/settings/security-settings.asciidoc b/docs/settings/security-settings.asciidoc
index 36aa340e3768e..f0f01ee6caf3f 100644
--- a/docs/settings/security-settings.asciidoc
+++ b/docs/settings/security-settings.asciidoc
@@ -289,7 +289,7 @@ Use a string of `<count>[ms\|s\|m\|h\|d\|w\|M\|Y]` (e.g. '20m', '24h', '7d', '1w
 |[[xpack-session-lifespan]] `xpack.security.session.lifespan` {ess-icon}
   | Ensures that user sessions will expire after the defined time period. This behavior is also known as an "absolute timeout". If
 this is _not_ set or set to `0`, user sessions could stay active indefinitely. This and <<xpack-session-idleTimeout, `xpack.security.session.idleTimeout`>> are both highly
-recommended. You can also specify this setting for <<xpack-security-provider-session-lifespan, every provider separately>>. By default, this setting is not set.
+recommended. You can also specify this setting for <<xpack-security-provider-session-lifespan, every provider separately>>. By default, this setting is not set for on-prem, and is set to 24 hours on Elastic Cloud.
 
 2+a|
 [TIP]