RE: automatic logout

You can place the definition of the environment variable TMOUT in SSH
configuration files, so it will be applied only to ssh sessions. You can
use files /etc/ssh/sshrc, ~/.ssh/rc (per user), ~/.ssh/environment (per
user, you will need to enable it in sshd_config).

Alexey Fadyushin
Brainbench MVP for Linux
http://www.brainbench.com

-----Original Message-----
From: redhat-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:redhat-list-
bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tom Hansen
Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 1:50 AM
To: General Red Hat Linux discussion list
Subject: Re: automatic logout

Maybe you could try something like this in /etc/profile:

if (grep sshd /proc/$PPID/cmdline >/dev/null 2>&1); then
export TMOUT=whatever
fi


Bill Tangren wrote:
I am required to configure my servers so that anyone who logs in via
ssh or sftp
will be logged out after 30 minutes of inactivity. I have looked
through the
openssh documentation and have seen nothing on how do to this
(ClientAliveInterval doesn't seem to do this). Googling didn't help
much either. I found an environment variable for the bash and ksh
shells that I can put in /etc/profile:

# export TMOUT=<timeout_in_seconds>

and this works, but it unceremoniously dumps the connection. And, if
you are
logged in to the gui at the console, and you have terminal windows
open (not
using ssh) it will close those too. Again with no warning.

Does anyone have any suggestions?

Bill Tangren





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