Re: Idle session logout

Andy Smith wrote:
> Mark wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Will that work for users that do not use sh/bash? It is also
>> possible for the user to set (or unset) this value to something
>> else.
>> 
>> namaste, Mark
>> 
>> 
> 
> That may be true on some systems I suppose, but on my Mandrake 10 box
>  TMOUT is a readonly variable. If I try to 'export TMOUT=12345' it
> fails with:
> 
> bash: TMOUT: readonly variable

That's so a user can't reset their own timeout.  The intention is that 
it be controlled by the admin.  It's likely set to readonly in 
/etc/profile or some such file.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey