(open) sshd timeout

[Bill Rugolsky Jr.]

On Sun, Mar 19, 2006 at 06:50:58PM -0500, Gaspar Bakos wrote:
> I am trying to set up sshd under FC3 and FC4 in such a way that idle
> logins are terminated after T(=1hour, for example) timeout.
> I did some googling on the issue that lead to confusion...
> 
> At some place the
>  IdleTimeout 1h
> was suggested (in sshd_config),
> but this openssh we have does not recognize such an option.
> 
> If you know the solution, let me know.
> 
> rpm -q openssh
> openssh-4.2p1-fc4.1

I've been successfully using the OpenSSH watchdog patch from Hideaki Goto
for some time.  Get it here:

   http://www.sc.isc.tohoku.ac.jp/~hgot/sources/openssh-watchdog.html

Regards,

	Bill Rugolsky