How to automate logouts for inactive users

[radi_1]

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.

[Michael Tully]

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)

[Steve Steel]

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

[Niraj Kumar Verma]

Hi,

you can set the

TMOUT=

in the profile

Regards
-Niraj

[Rainer von Bongartz]

SET

TMOUT=

in /etc/profile or in individual .profiles

Regards
Rainer

[Ollie R]

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.

[twang]

Simply set TMOUT in /etc/profile:

TMOUT=

[radi_1]

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

[T G Manikandan]

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

[Robert Salter]

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.