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Article #118Re: autologout timers
From: Leon Brooks
Date: Sat, 30 May 1998 00:00
Date: Sat, 30 May 1998 00:00
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Daryle Niedermayer wrote: > When logging into one of our machines (A Pentium using RH4.1) using > multiple telnet sessions (we like lots of open windows around here), how > can I set or disable the amount of time the telnet/login/getty process > waits with no activity on the connection before logging me out? I would use a version of login that does timeouts, then pass that to in.telnetd (in /etc/inetd.conf) with the -L option instead of /bin/login. in.telnetd cleans up dropped connections OK, but I gather that idle connections are your actual worry.
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