Re: Idle session logout

Sanjeev B.S. wrote:
>>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.
> 

This solution would require the finger deamon to be running which just 
opens another can of security worms :-) A better fix would probably be a 
replacement for the idled app. There are several from what I can see on 
Google. It may even be possible to compile idled from source on the 
current system.

Regards,
Andy