topic Re: How to automate logouts for inactive users in Operating System - HP-UX

How to automate logouts for inactive users

radi_1 — Thu, 10 Jul 2003 08:04:57 GMT

Hi,
I need to force logouts for users who go inactive for a certain period of time.
note the users work through unfixed ttys.
thanks.

Re: How to automate logouts for inactive users

Michael Tully — Thu, 10 Jul 2003 08:10:13 GMT

Set in each users profile 'TMOUT=3600'
This will timeout a user after one hour.
Change to suit. Be aware that this will not work for CDE users, or users within some sort of application. (use autologout for csh)

Re: How to automate logouts for inactive users

Steve Steel — Thu, 10 Jul 2003 08:10:18 GMT

Hi

csh

set autologout = 120

ksh and others look at TMOUT

If the TMOUT= environment variable is set to any value greater than 0, the Korn Shell windows will timeout at this specified time.

NOTE. Uses seconds

Steve Steel

Re: How to automate logouts for inactive users

Niraj Kumar Verma — Thu, 10 Jul 2003 08:10:35 GMT

Hi,

you can set the

TMOUT=

in the profile

Regards
-Niraj

Re: How to automate logouts for inactive users

Rainer von Bongartz — Thu, 10 Jul 2003 08:12:38 GMT

SET

TMOUT=

in /etc/profile or in individual .profiles

Regards
Rainer

Re: How to automate logouts for inactive users

Ollie R — Thu, 10 Jul 2003 08:16:00 GMT

Hi,

You can also do:

readonly TMOUT

which means that users cannot change the timeout.

Without doing this step, a user could quite simply do:

TMOUT=0

and disable the auto-logout.

Ollie.

Re: How to automate logouts for inactive users

twang — Thu, 10 Jul 2003 08:28:53 GMT

Simply set TMOUT in /etc/profile:

TMOUT=

Re: How to automate logouts for inactive users

radi_1 — Thu, 10 Jul 2003 08:42:10 GMT

Thank you all for the quick response,but I would like you to consider 2 things;
1- the users are not hp-ux users,they use an old application i.e PIOPEN.
2-the users do not have individual ID or login names,a group of them login as (finance)the other group login as (pay).So I need to force a certain inactive tty user to logout.(Actually its an application user license problem).
thanks

Re: How to automate logouts for inactive users

T G Manikandan — Thu, 10 Jul 2003 08:59:19 GMT

For sh and ksh you can use

TMOUT=600(in secs)
export TMOUT
Global file /etc/profile

for csh

logout=60(in min)
for all csh users /etc/csh.login

Re: How to automate logouts for inactive users

Robert Salter — Thu, 10 Jul 2003 13:34:23 GMT

Here's a script I wrote a few years back to do the same thing, we had some users that needed to be excluded, but a lot of users that would literally walk away from their terminals.

See the attached, it may be dated but it works. We set the idle time to be 30 minutes, anything after that is toast.