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by **andy-s..** » Wed, 14 Mar 2001 00:02:42

Hi,

Is it possible to have an idle user timeout on AIX? I have OpenSSH
installed but for some reason there's no option to kill an idle
session in sshd.config. Smit seems to include every possible parameter
for a user account but idle timeouts.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Andy

by **sp2 admi** » Wed, 14 Mar 2001 00:11:57

export TMOUT=xxx
where xxx is number of idle seconds.

> Hi,
> Is it possible to have an idle user timeout on AIX? I have OpenSSH
> installed but for some reason there's no option to kill an idle
> session in sshd.config. Smit seems to include every possible parameter
> for a user account but idle timeouts.
> Any help would be much appreciated.
> Andy

by **andy-s..** » Wed, 14 Mar 2001 00:23:42

Many thanks,

I found an entry in /etc/profile for TMOUT and used that.

Andy

On Mon, 12 Mar 2001 15:11:57 GMT, sp2 admin

>export TMOUT=xxx
>where xxx is number of idle seconds.

>> Hi,

>> Is it possible to have an idle user timeout on AIX? I have OpenSSH
>> installed but for some reason there's no option to kill an idle
>> session in sshd.config. Smit seems to include every possible parameter
>> for a user account but idle timeouts.

>> Any help would be much appreciated.

>> Andy

by **Jerald H. Mathew** » Wed, 14 Mar 2001 22:15:16

> I found an entry in /etc/profile for TMOUT and used that.
> On Mon, 12 Mar 2001 15:11:57 GMT, sp2 admin

>>export TMOUT=xxx
>>where xxx is number of idle seconds.

TMOUT will logout the user only if they are at the "shell" prompt.

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by **Randy Styk** » Mon, 19 Mar 2001 16:29:58

> Hi,

> Is it possible to have an idle user timeout on AIX? I have OpenSSH
> installed but for some reason there's no option to kill an idle
> session in sshd.config. Smit seems to include every possible parameter
> for a user account but idle timeouts.

As someone else pointed out, TMOUT only works for users
at a shell prompt. For other situations, there is a
program called "idled" that might help. We wrote/sell
a product called LOGMON that monitors the cpu usage for
each user and their child processes. That way we are
sure the user is idle. Other solutions, like idled,
will consider a user running a cpu bound job with no
keyboard activity to be idle.

Thanks!
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