RE: Telnet Idle Timeout

thanks a lot Ralph. I have managed to work it out by using the following:

for bash & korn shells I included the following in /etc/profile

readonly TMOUT=1800
export TMOUT

I set it as readonly to avoid users trying to change it's value, including
root.
However anybody can do unset TMOUT but that's between us :))

for tcsh I included the following in /etc/csh.cshrc

set autologout=30

This ensures 30 minutes of idle activity before ending the session.

Best regards,
Gilbert

-----Original Message-----
From: Ralph Houben [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 11:58 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Telnet Idle Timeout


Hi Galea,

this can be simply done thru the BASH settings, there is a default variable
defined
TMOUT, if you set this, it wil terminate the bash session after the set
period of time.
this deals with SSH aswell.. (any program afaik that starts up bash and
reads the
bash_profile).

for more info on this i'd like to refer you to 'man bash', its listed there.

hope this helps :)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Galea Gilbert" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>;
<[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 8:52 AM
Subject: Telnet Idle Timeout


> Hi, can anybody tell me if it's possible to set a timer running in Linux
for
> telnet and rlogin sessions to timeout the session after 30 minutes of
> inactivity?
>
> Thanks a lot
>
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