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. -- BALI, Andra's GPG keyID: 78560E1C [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
