From owner-freebsd-security Mon Jun 24 8:15:39 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from tchpc01.tcd.ie (tchpc01.tcd.ie [134.226.10.78]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C941E37B400 for ; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 08:15:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from flipflop.tchpc.tcd.ie (hpc04.iss.tcd.ie [134.226.10.47]) by tchpc01.tcd.ie (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F4C4356B; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 16:24:54 +0100 (IST) Received: by flipflop.tchpc.tcd.ie (Postfix, from userid 1001) id E9E7D18B; Mon, 24 Jun 2002 16:15:37 +0100 (IST) Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 16:15:37 +0100 From: Robert bobb Crosbie To: Noah K Sematimba Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SSH timeout settings Message-ID: <20020624161537.A85900@lummux.tchpc.tcd.ie> References: <20020623134155.M69114-100000@favour.one2net.co.ug> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i 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 +0300 Organization: bobb Industries Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message