[scponly] Auto Logout

[Hari Sekhon]

Why don't you just create a bash script, it will take you 5 mins to 
write and you can schedule it to disconnect anybody who has been idle 
for more than a time you specify.

You can then schedule this as a cron job.

Simple and effective.

-h

Hari Sekhon



Kaleb Pederson wrote:
> Hi Joseph,
>
> It looks like that feature was added to OpenSSH at one time (see 
> http://msgs.securepoint.com/cgi-bin/get/openssh-unix-dev-0108/60.html), and 
> then removed or never applied.
>
> The idle-timeout isn't really something that's in the realm of scponly nor 
> would it easily fit into the scponly architecture -- once a command has been 
> executed, scponly has no knowledge of whatever actions it may perform, nor 
> their frequency.
>
> If you run into a good solution, please let us know.
>
> Thanks.
>
> --Kaleb
>
> On Tuesday 10 April 2007, Joseph Ghobrial wrote:
>   
>> Hello, just wondering if there is an environmental variable I can set
>> that would log people out who are idle for a certain period of time.
>> Something like TMOUT for bash.
>>
>> I have searched and can't see any mention of this and don't really
>> know if it is feasible. If it does not exist then I would like to
>> request the feature. I have users who sometimes connect for days at a
>> time and don't disconnect.
>>
>> I can script a solution, but would really like this to be within
>> scponly.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Joseph
>>
>>
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