Re: timeout an inactive login session

From: Randy Styka (randy_at_computron.com)
Date: 11/16/03

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    taz wrote:
    > We are setting up enhanced security on a V4.0f system. One of the corporate
    > requirements is that any login session that has been idle for XX amount of
    > time needs to be automatically logged out. I have not been able to find
    > this capability in the documentation, but I have to believe that it is
    > there. How do we enforce this for ALL logins?

    With most shells, there is a variable that can be set that may help.
    In ksh, for instance, the variable TMOUT sets the number of minutes you
    can be idle before being logged off. It varies by shell.

    Note, however, that this ONLY works for users at a shell prompt, not in
    applications.

    If you want a general way of enforcing this for all interactive
    sessions, we wrote/sell a product called LOGMON. It is available
    for Tru64 as well as a lot of other Unix variants.

    This software monitors the cpu usage of each user, and their child
    processes, to make sure the user really is idle. This is important,
    as commands like "who -u" show you an idle time based on keyboard
    activity only. If you run a long cpu bound job, "who -u" will show you
    as idle, even while the job is running. But since we monitor cpu usage
    also, you would not be logged off.

    You can vary the inactivity time by user, time of day, etc. You can
    control how the user is logged off.

    For details, send a message to logmon@computron.com or visit
    www.logmon.com Thanks!

    Randy Styka, randy@computron.com, 630/941-7767

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