How to Force Automatic Logoff or Screen Lock

[S. Bandyopadhyay]

On 2:28pm Dec 17, 2004, Browder, Tom wrote

[snip]

> If using tcsh, automatic logout can be forced after a certain period.
> But how about bash users?

the environment variable TMOUT

TMOUT=3600 
export TMOUT #will autologout users after 3600 seconds (1hr)
             #of inactivity
 

of course users can always unset TMOUT