Re: timeout value

From: Stephen Spalding (ssaixadm@YAHOO.COM)
Date: Thu Jul 10 2003 - 14:22:42 EDT


This is exactly what I was looking for. Is there
something for csh as well?

--- Paul LaMadeleine <plamadeleine@LIGHTBRIDGE.COM>
wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> We place this in our /etc/profile
>
> #
> # TMOUT works for ksh and bash
> # It's the number of seconds the account can stay
> idle before
> # being automatically logged out.
> #
> TMOUT=14400 # 14400 seconds = 4 hours
> export TMOUT
> readonly TMOUT # make the variable unmodifiable
>
> This does not work for /bin/sh though. All
> the user really needs
> to do is spawn a /bin/sh. But if you can make
> /bin/sh a link to /bin/ksh
> this may solve this problem.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Paul LaMadeleine
>
> At 09:04 AM 7/10/2003 -0700, you wrote:
> >All,
> >
> >Is there a way to knock a user out of AIX that has
> >been inactive for a period of time? If not that, is
> >there a way to knock them off after a set period of
> >time? I'm wondering if there's a way to do this
> other
> >than by me scripting it.
> >
> >Thanks!
> >
> >-Stephen Spalding
> >
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