Sam Varshavchik writes:
> On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Francis P. Ling wrote:
>
> >
> > Sam,
> >
> > What the difference between the two types of timeouts?
>
> Soft timeout - timeout between any kind of activity. Sessions inactive
> longer than this period are logged out.
>
> Hard timeout - absolute maximum length of a login session.
>
> > Can I can the timeout settings without having to recompile the whole dist?
>
> No.
>
>
> --
> Sam
>
So Sam,
What you are saying is that soft-timeout is a sort of idle timeout
mechanism, while hard-timeout is a duration of a login session, regardless
whether there has been any idle. If I set hard-timeout to 1 minute (let's
say), user would only be allowed to login for one minute. After that,
session will automatically timeout?
Thanks!
