topic Re: Terminate idle login in Operating System - Linux

Terminate idle login

peterchu — Thu, 12 Feb 2004 02:46:35 GMT

Our HP UX system limited the no. of user login , could suggest how to terminate the idle login ( eg. 2 hours ) ? could anyone post the script for reference ? Thx.

Re: Terminate idle login

Mark Grant — Thu, 12 Feb 2004 02:49:53 GMT

In the users .profile or in /etc/profile add

"export TMOUT=xxxx" where xxxx is the number of seconds that user can remain idle without being logged out.

Re: Terminate idle login

Elmar P. Kolkman — Thu, 12 Feb 2004 08:13:33 GMT

Or use the w command, grep the idle timeouts of more then 2 hours. This will lead to the tty being used. Then you can kill all processes running on that tty.

w | awk '$4 ~ /[2-9]:[0-9]*/ {print $2}
$4 ~ /[0-9][0-9][0-9]*:[0-9]*/ {print $2}'

This will give the ttys with idle times of at least 2 hours.
Now you can use ps -t to get processes running there and kill those... Or just: fuser -k /dev/ should do the trick.