Killing idle SSH sessions?
John Summerfied
debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Tue Jul 5 20:43:16 UTC 2005
Brandon Laing wrote:
> John,
>
> Could you go into a bit more detail about this? I'm talking about any
> kind of remote login via SSH, be it from a Windows or Linux system. I'd
> just like to find a way for SSH to kill the session after 15 minutes of
> inactivity to make sure someone doesn't leave an open session up on
> their screen logged into a critical system.
I'm sure you can read the man page and try stuff out as well as I can.
AFAICR it applies to both local and remote logins.
>
> John Summerfied wrote:
>
> Hey list,
>
>
> I'm curious to know if there is a way to have SSH kill idle sessions
> after a set time in Fedora 2 and 3. I've been looking around and
> haven't really found any way of doing this. The closest settings
> I've found are these:
>
> I think bash provides that capability (but it applies whether you
> connect via ssh or login at tty1).
>
> --
>
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Cheers
John
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