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Date:      Mon, 24 Jun 2002 16:15:37 +0100
From:      Robert bobb Crosbie <bobb+freebsd-security@redbrick.dcu.ie>
To:        Noah K Sematimba <ksemat@wawa.eahd.or.ug>
Cc:        freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SSH timeout settings
Message-ID:  <20020624161537.A85900@lummux.tchpc.tcd.ie>
In-Reply-To: <20020623134155.M69114-100000@favour.one2net.co.ug>; from ksemat@wawa.eahd.or.ug on Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 01:42:51PM %2B0300
References:  <u2s7kkrk0oe.fsf@gs166.sp.cs.cmu.edu> <20020623134155.M69114-100000@favour.one2net.co.ug>

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Noah K Sematimba hath declared on Sunday the 23 day of June 2002  :-:
> 
> >  The are at least two ports (blimitd and idled) that claim to enforce this
> > limit - I've tried neither.
> 
> idled actually does this very well.
 

I thought the "client" referred to in the man page was the ssh client
_program_ as against the user, that these options help to determine
if a connection has gone stale or somthing, so it can be terminitaged.
As against detecting if a user is idle.

Granted, my interpretation, I could be wrong :)


- bobb



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