RE: Idle session logout

"Sanjeev B.S." <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.linux
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> try to set TMOUT=<seconds> in /etc/profile.

TMOUT works only for bash shell users, isn't it? May be running a simple 
shell script with kill -9 that checks with 'finger foo', grepping idle 
time, might be a good idea. First get the pts, say 'pts/2', then check it 
with ps -ef | grep 'pts/2'. Then decide whether to for logout.
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