Re: timeoutd and long usernames
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 12:21:40PM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> I've decided to enforce idle timeouts on one of my servers and, to
> implement this, I've installed timeoutd on it. Unfortunately, it
> seems that timeoutd doesn't like usernames in excess of 8 characters.
This is a known bug <http://bugs.debian.org/52456>, it was reported
almost two years ago.
> Is there an available patch to work around this problem? Or maybe an
> alternate program to provide this functionality that doesn't have
> problems with long usernames?
Since timeoutd seems pretty obsolote now (the last maintainer upload
was in 1997 and the upstream has disappeared), I would suggest using
`autolog', which is also included in the Debian distribution and seems
to be properly maintained.
The description of the package says:
Autolog terminates connections considered to be idle based on a large
variety of parameters.
If you don't like autolog, you can try `pttymon'
<http://freshmeat.net/projects/pyttymon/>, which is not (yet)
packaged, but seems to be a bit more powerful.
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