How long is the TTL of the OAuth token stored in .credentials on a self-hosted runner after registration

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I want a subset of hardware to be available for jobs during a short time window

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I did run self hosted runners for over a year i think without the token expiring.
As far as i understood from researching the "token" in .credentials is just the registration token (when you first register the runner).
After the registration it has obtained a public private key pair which the runner uses to authenticate. And this doesn't have a TTL as far as i know.

If you want to time the access of a runner i think you need to programmatically register it and also stop + unregistered it via API and also via the script on the machine it is running on.

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