Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 10:09:34 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Damien Fleuriot <ml@my.gd> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, Modulok <modulok@gmail.com> Subject: Re: idletime in login.conf Message-ID: <20111031150934.GO93709@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <E03916D7-DF2E-4DA6-B3C0-1B5E3179A6C8@my.gd> References: <CAN2%2BEpawKTw4yJwnN87VEk4KRxmJTOughDLAQYRjsCecy=D-oA@mail.gmail.com> <E03916D7-DF2E-4DA6-B3C0-1B5E3179A6C8@my.gd>
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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.
--
Dan Nelson
dnelson@allantgroup.com
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