Killing idle SSH sessions?

[Alex Evonosky]

Brandon Laing wrote:
> John,
> 
> Could you go into a bit more detail about this? 


Add this to your /etc/sshd/sshd_config:

ClientAliveInterval n

n=number of seconds (0 default for unlimited)






>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.