Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 20:11:57 +0100 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> To: Jason Helfman <jhelfman@e-e.com> Cc: Damien Fleuriot <ml@my.gd>, Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, Modulok <modulok@gmail.com> Subject: Re: idletime in login.conf Message-ID: <201110311912.p9VJBvFL058118@fire.js.berklix.net> In-Reply-To: Your message "Mon, 31 Oct 2011 11:25:32 MST." <20111031182532.GF82316@eggman.experts-exchange.com>
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Hi, Reference: > From: Jason Helfman <jhelfman@e-e.com> > Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 11:25:32 -0700 > Message-id: <20111031182532.GF82316@eggman.experts-exchange.com> Jason Helfman wrote: > 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 That was a useful tip, but people (inc. self) will not remember. Suggestion: use send-pr to submit a diff to add SEE ALSO ports/sysutils/doinkd to man login.conf Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below, not above; Indent with "> "; Cumulative like a play script. Format: Plain text. Not HTML, multipart/alternative, base64, quoted-printable.
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