Re: Idle session logout

Andy Smith wrote:
> 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 :-)

Use the output from 'who -Tu' instead of finger?

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Until later, Geoffrey