Re: Forcing inactive users off system.

["Richard Stevenson" <nospam [at] adv.net.nz>]

On 26 Feb 2000, at 19:32, Ross wrote:

> >  Another quickie: is there anyway I can get my system to automatically
> > logoff users if they have been inactive for a set period?
> 
> two programs that came with suse6.3 do just that
> 
> autolog
> &
> idled

Some shells also have this facility.  In Bash, if you set TMOUT to a 
positive value, then the shell will exit after waiting that many seconds 
for input.  In tcsh (and probably also csh, but I never liked that one), 
the autologout shell variable offers similar functionality (but it's 
measured in minutes, not seconds).  Users can override this, which may or 
may not be a good thing for your particular system.

Cheers

Richard

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