[SunHELP] setting shell timeouts

[Nicholas Dronen]

People often recommend idled as well.  Search google.com
or freshmeat.net for it.  It might log out users logged
in via X (e.g., CDE at console) after a certain period of
inactivity as well.  (You could also just write a shell
script for that.)

On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 02:08:12PM -0800, J P wrote:
> Cool, thanks!  I'll be giving this a try right away! 
> You da' man, I was told it couldn't be done, I knew it
> works on our consoles and other pieces, just wasn't
> sure how to get it to go on the box itself. 
> With MUCH thanks,
> Peer
> 
> --- Nicholas Dronen <ndronen at frii.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 06:13:01AM -0800, J P wrote:
> > > Hey all,
> > > how do you set a shell timeout for every user on a
> > > system, or for any one user either?
> > 
> > With the Korn shell, just make TMOUT a readonly
> > environment variable.
> > 
> > $ readonly TMOUT=5; export TMOUT
> > $   
> > shell will timeout in 60 seconds due to inactivity
> > 
> > With the C shell, who knows?  I suggest simply
> > not using it.  Tcsh might have something that 
> > works, however.
> > 
> > To make this global, put it in /etc/profile.
> > It's a bit tougher to make this local to a user
> > without allowing them to change it.  You
> > can set the environment variable in .profile
> > or .kshrc, but since the user probably needs
> > write permission to his or her own home directory,
> > you can't prevent him or her from editing
> > the file and simply logging in again.
> > 
> > If you want the timeout to apply only to a
> > certain set of users, you can put shell
> > script code in /etc/profile to check the
> > user's uid (or gid) to determine whether
> > to set the variable when he or she logs
> > in.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > Nicholas Dronen
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