Hello list,
I'm facing this unusual demand at work where we need to time out idle SSH
connections for security purposes.
I've checked the following options from sshd_config but none seems to fit my
needs :
TCPKeepAlive
ClientAliveCountMax
ClientAliveInterval
Basically, I'm trying to defeat
Depending on the shell you are using, you may be able to set that to
auto-logout, or you
could set a cron job to run every 5 minutes and terminate tty's with 5min
idle time.
Honestly though, you will rarely find a good technical solution to a social
problem--there's always a work-around--and
Thanks for your response Markham,
I'm afraid labor law is much too protective here for us to be able to educate
users in this way ;)
Your idea to run a cron job every X minutes has merit though, I'll try and
check into that !
On May 3, 2013, at 4:51 PM, markham breitbach
last on.
Regards,
Mikel King
BSD News
From: Fleuriot Damien [mailto:m...@my.gd]
To: FreeBSD questions [mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]
Sent: Fri, 03 May 2013 10:28:31 -0400
Subject: sshd - time out idle connections
Hello list,
I'm facing this unusual demand at work
On May 3, 2013, at 5:16 PM, Arthur Chance free...@qeng-ho.org wrote:
On 05/03/13 15:28, Fleuriot Damien wrote:
Hello list,
I'm facing this unusual demand at work where we need to time out idle SSH
connections for security purposes.
I've checked the following options from
On 05/03/13 15:28, Fleuriot Damien wrote:
Hello list,
I'm facing this unusual demand at work where we need to time out idle SSH
connections for security purposes.
I've checked the following options from sshd_config but none seems to fit my
needs :
TCPKeepAlive
ClientAliveCountMax
of connection
outages if they can reconnect to where the were when they were last on.
Regards,
Mikel King
BSD News
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From: Fleuriot Damien [mailto:m...@my.gd]
To: FreeBSD questions [mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]
Sent: Fri, 03 May 2013 10:28:31 -0400
Subject: sshd - time out
On 5/3/2013 10:05 AM, Fleuriot Damien wrote:
Thanks for your response Markham,
I'm afraid labor law is much too protective here for us to be able to educate
users in this way;)
Your idea to run a cron job every X minutes has merit though, I'll try and
check into that !
If labor law's
On Fri, 3 May 2013 17:22:04 +0200, Fleuriot Damien wrote:
Allow me to add a bit of context here.
We're wrapping things up to obtain the PCI DSS certification which
is awarded for running through a long and annoying series of hoops.
This certification is rather important to our business so
