Re: Automatic logout for inactive login sessions
On Thu, 7 Sep 2006 11:20:19 -0400
"Larry Irwin" <larryi@ccamedical.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
> (This is my 3rd attempt to send this email... Trying plain text
> this time.) Is there a method to log users out after 30 minutes of
> inactivity? By inactivity, I mean:
> 1) No i/o from/to the user's session on any file descriptor
> 2) No user owned processes actively utilizing resources (disk i/o,
> cpu, etc.)
> So, after 30 minutes of meeting the above specs, take down the
> login session automatically.
> I'm not sure how it was handled long ago on SCO OS5, but they had
> a login setting called IDLETIME that was stored in
> /etc/default/idleout that worked on 5.0.5 and higher...
> I checked login, sysconfig/*, pam, etc. and did not see anything
> related to this concept...
> Thanks for any ideas you may have,
> Larry Irwin
>
>
Using Sarge, I did: apt-cache search idle
It gave the following:
autolog - Terminates connections for idle users
--
Raquel
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