Logging out idle users

Stefan Brandle stefan at wheaton.UUCP
Tue Feb 13 15:27:18 AEST 1990


In article <298 at venice.SEDD.TRW.COM> gay at venice.sedd.trw.com (Lance Gay) writes:
>We have a problem with idle user not logging out when they leave their
>terminals and staying logged on all night.  Is their any free software
>(FTPable) out there which will logout any user which have not enetered
>any commands for a given time period?

Well, the new csh with Ultrix (unsupported shells software subset) does let you
specify timeout values for blowing people.  However, this is a very soft
approach and will not fix the determined non-logger-outer.

-stefan
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