Killing idle SSH sessions?

[John Summerfied]

Brandon Laing wrote:
> John,
> 
> Could you go into a bit more detail about this? I'm talking about any 
> kind of remote login via SSH, be it from a Windows or Linux system. I'd 
> just like to find a way for SSH to kill the session after 15 minutes of 
> inactivity to make sure someone doesn't leave an open session up on 
> their screen logged into a critical system.

I'm sure you can read the man page and try stuff out as well as I can. 
AFAICR it applies to both local and remote logins.


> 
> John Summerfied wrote:
> 
> Hey list,
> 
> 
>    I'm curious to know if there is a way to have SSH kill idle sessions
>    after a set time in Fedora 2 and 3. I've been looking around and
>    haven't really found any way of doing this. The closest settings
>    I've found are these:
> 
> I think bash provides that capability (but it applies whether you 
> connect via ssh or login at tty1).
> 
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