The total number of seconds allowd for host/user authentication. In most
cases only a few seconds is needed. But, in the case of user/password
authentication, the user may 'stall' the session by not supplying
a password in a timely manner. This object roughly defines the
number of seconds to wait for the entire authentication process
to complete. It is NOT an exact number of seconds. The authentication
status is checked as a background task (specific timer interval) for
each session thread. Therefore, it MAY take a few seconds beyond
the configured value for the connection to be terminated.