change the time for authorization
Jorge Fábregas
fabregasj at prtc.net
Wed Dec 29 01:47:11 UTC 2004
On Tuesday 28 December 2004 8:52 pm, Jim wrote:
> can i chnge the default time i'm able to run as root in my user
> account the default is like 5 minutes.
> if so how and where do i make this change
You can set this setiing by using an environment variable called TMOUT.
Just modify your root account's .bashrc and set it there. Like this:
export TMOUT=300
Put this in /home/root/.bashrc
After that, whenever you switch to root (using "su -") you'll get kicked out
after 5 minutes of inactivity. Remember to use "su -" because if you don't ,
the shell won't read root's initial environment files (.bash_profile, bashrc
etc...).
HTH,
Jorge
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