Time Out

[P.V.Ramesh]

How can i time out any session after certain amount of idle time

[A. Clay Stephenson]

By setting and exporting the TMOUT environment variable to a non-zero number of seconds.

[Dietmar Konermann]

Hi!

For Posix or Korn Shell sessions you may use the TMOUT environment variable, e.g. to be set in /etc/profile. See man sh-posix(1).

Regards...
Dietmar.

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi P.V.

You'll need to use & set the TMOUT env var for all or individual users
For all set in -> /etc/profile
For individual users -> set in the .profile or equivalent file.

HTH,
Jeff

[Deshpande Prashant]

HI
For Ksh use following lines in /etc/profile.
##
TMOUT=600
readonly TMOUT
##
This will timeout shells at prompt after 10 minutes of idle time.

Thanks.
Prashant.

[Bill Hassell]

And for csh users, the variable is: autologout and is measured in minutes. NOTE: for all shell timeouts, these work only if the user returns back to the shell. The timer starts when the shell prompt is displayed. If a user decides to run vi and then leave for vacation, the shell is waiting on vi and can't run the timer.

[Wodisch_1]

Hi,

since $TMOUT and such won't work if the user has a "sleep 999" running, how about "idled" (idle daemon)?

Just my $0.02,
Wodisch
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