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Re: Idle session logout

Subject: Re: Idle session logout
Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 23:08:02 -0500
Sanjeev B.S. wrote:
try to set TMOUT=<seconds> in /etc/profile.


TMOUT works only for bash shell users, isn't it? May be running a simple shell script with kill -9 that checks with 'finger foo', grepping idle time, might be a good idea. First get the pts, say 'pts/2', then check it with ps -ef | grep 'pts/2'. Then decide whether to for logout.


This solution would require the finger deamon to be running which just opens another can of security worms :-) A better fix would probably be a replacement for the idled app. There are several from what I can see on Google. It may even be possible to compile idled from source on the current system.


Regards,
Andy

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