Very Computer

Hi all...

Is there a way to autologout users after a certain amount of time?

Pete.

it depends on the shell.
If /bin/ksh then yes.
The variable is (I think) TIMEOUT
do man ksh.

Set it in the /etc/profile file.
With some shells you can set the TIMEOUT variable to be read only.

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http://ftp.opensysmon.com is a shell script archive site with an
open source system monitoring and network monitoring software package.
Many platforms are supplied already compiled.

  Well    There has been many  scripts that can achive this .
However   what is a logged in user  these days.  ?
You will  need to qualify  how to measure  user activity.

The  old method to measure  by keyboard  activity  does not
work  any more .   I am  running  Xwindows  right now
and  typing away   and keyboard activity is not  registred for my user

$ who-Hu
NAME       LINE         TIME          IDLE    PID  COMMENTS
me        console      May 16 21:22  0:10    648       (:0)
$ who -Hu
NAME       LINE         TIME          IDLE    PID  COMMENTS
me        console      May 16 21:22  0:10    648       (:0)
$ who -Hu
NAME       LINE         TIME          IDLE    PID  COMMENTS
me        console      May 16 21:22  0:11    648       (:0)
$ who -Hu
NAME       LINE         TIME          IDLE    PID  COMMENTS
me        console      May 16 21:22  0:14    648       (:0)

Neither would a logged in   network  connection   that is  running
http  or  pcnfs   or samba  

What we used to do 15  years  ago  was to  send a kill -1    to the
users registred PID  ( above )   if  his idle time  was greater than 15
minutes  or any desired value.

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Lars Tunkrans
smtp: lars dot tunkrans at bredband dot net
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Quote:Peter Lingmen wrote...

> Is there a way to autologout users after a certain amount of time?

"idled" might be worth a try:

http://www.darkwing.com/idled/

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H.O.

        The tcsh has autologout. But I'm not surprised you didn't know
        that Rolfie.

-am     ? 2003