Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 11:25:32 -0700 From: Jason Helfman <jhelfman@e-e.com> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: Damien Fleuriot <ml@my.gd>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, Modulok <modulok@gmail.com> Subject: Re: idletime in login.conf Message-ID: <20111031182532.GF82316@eggman.experts-exchange.com> In-Reply-To: <20111031150934.GO93709@dan.emsphone.com> References: <CAN2%2BEpawKTw4yJwnN87VEk4KRxmJTOughDLAQYRjsCecy=D-oA@mail.gmail.com> <E03916D7-DF2E-4DA6-B3C0-1B5E3179A6C8@my.gd> <20111031150934.GO93709@dan.emsphone.com>
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On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 10:09:34AM -0500, Dan Nelson thus spake: >In the last episode (Oct 31), Damien Fleuriot said: >> On 30 Oct 2011, at 16:45, Modulok <modulok@gmail.com> wrote: >> > List, >> > >> > Goal: Automatically logoff users that are idle after 'x' minutes. >> > >> > Attempt: I added this to /etc/login.conf to the default login class: >> > >> > :idletime=10m: >> > >> > I then rebuilt the database: >> > >> > cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf >> > >> > Problem: It doesn't work. The 'w' command shows users idle for 20 >> > minutes or more. I'm missing something. Other than an autologout shell >> > variables, how do I force idle users to logout? >> >> Are these users that logged in after or before your change ? >> >> Obviously the idle timeout only applies to users who logged in after you >> adjusted the value and rebuilt the db. > >Actually, the idle timeout is not implemented in the base system. It's >there in case someone writes a 3rd-party module that does idle detection. >See the login.conf manpage: > >RESERVED CAPABILITIES > The following capabilities are reserved for the purposes indicated and > may be supported by third-party software. They are not implemented in > the base system. >[...] > idletime time Maximum idle time before logout. > > You may want to look into /usr/ports/sysutils/doinkd for this. I use it on many systems, and it works remarkable well, and it is highly configurable. -jgh -- Jason Helfman System Administrator experts-exchange.com http://www.experts-exchange.com/M_4830110.html E4AD 7CF1 1396 27F6 79DD 4342 5E92 AD66 8C8C FBA5
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