Re: SV: automatically logging out users
On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 21:51, Christofer Algotsson wrote:
> martin f krafft wrote:
> > Is there a way to automatically log out users after a certain idle
> > period? I would need this automatic logout on a per-service basis,
> > thus e.g. logging out KDE and tty users while keeping SSH users
> > logged in.
> >
> > Does PAM provide for this? Are there other means?
> >
>
> Idled might be a solution.
I have a thing called pyttymon too that does this kind of stuff, and
more...
http://freshmeat.net/projects/pyttymon/
One thing to be wary off... idle timers on ppp connections are wrong.
For some reason the kernel idle detection is bypassed and ppp
connections show the tty as idle for the full duration of the ppp
connection.
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Donovan Baarda <abo@minkirri.apana.org.au>
http://minkirri.apana.org.au/~abo/
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