From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 18 8:39:50 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from flamingo.mail.pas.earthlink.net (flamingo.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.232]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59A4837B40C for ; Tue, 18 Jun 2002 08:39:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from user-119aekg.biz.mindspring.com ([66.149.58.144] helo=ns.flncs.com) by flamingo.mail.pas.earthlink.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 17KL4s-0000c6-00; Tue, 18 Jun 2002 08:39:30 -0700 Received: from mlevy (cylex [12.27.148.78]) by ns.flncs.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 15D2F53C8; Tue, 18 Jun 2002 11:43:24 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <059301c216de$8a41e400$fd6e34c6@mlevy> From: "Moti Levy" To: "Peter Christie" , References: Subject: Re: Automatic logout ? Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 11:40:57 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG bash -> export TMOUT=XX ( in sec ) csh/tcsh -> set autologout XX ( minutes ) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Christie" To: Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 11:28 AM Subject: Automatic logout ? > Hey there ~ > > I have a bad habit of walking away from my FreeBSD box without logging out, while this is not much of a security threat as this is a personal machine in my home, is there a way to have the system automatically log out users (including root) after a period of inactivity at the console? > > TIA > Pete C > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message