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Re: Idle session logout

from [Geoffrey] Network Security [Permanent Link]
Subject: Re: Idle session logout
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 12:21:43 -0400
Andy Smith wrote: 
Mark wrote:


Will that work for users that do not use sh/bash? It is also
possible for the user to set (or unset) this value to something
else.

namaste, Mark



That may be true on some systems I suppose, but on my Mandrake 10 box
 TMOUT is a readonly variable. If I try to 'export TMOUT=12345' it
fails with:

bash: TMOUT: readonly variable

That's so a user can't reset their own timeout. The intention is that it be controlled by the admin. It's likely set to readonly in /etc/profile or some such file.

--
Until later, Geoffrey

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