On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Nick Lomonte wrote:
> Is there anyway to set an idle timeout in SSH? A lot of users on my system
> tend to leave their machines connected, and I would it to automatically log
> them out after a certain period of inactivity. Is this possible? I'm trying
> to avoid have to write a cron script to do this.
You might also want to check out idled at
http://www.darkwing.com/idled/
It's rather old, but it does the job nicely. Allows you to set idle
timeouts while making exceptions for certain users. It works with ssh
or telnet connection and even handles console connections as a
separate class of connecitons.
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