[geeks] geeks Digest, Vol 68, Issue 10

[Bill Blum]

> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:56:56 -0400
> From: Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com>
> Subject: [geeks] FreeBSD login timeout
>
> Is there any way to shorted the timeout on the login program in FreeBSD?
>
> [3] % time login
> login: Login timed out after 300 seconds
> 0.000u 0.022s 5:00.26 0.0% 20+132k 0+0io 0pf+0w
>
> I would like that to be 60 seconds or less.
>
> login.conf has all kinds of time variables for how long you can be
> logged in, but I don't see anything that controls how long login will
> wait for a correct login.
>
> The only thing I see is setting the number of retries allowed.
>
> I really need it to give up faster than 300 seconds.
>

If you notice in the manual page for login.conf, the option you're looking
for (idletime) isn't implemented.


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