Automatic disconnect from host feature

[Gavin McDonald]

Two (or three) thoughts:

1) It depends on how they are connecting.  If you are talking about local
sessions, that is far different than say, remote X connections, or even
remote connections over VNC, or X tunneled through SSH.

2) It will probably be service-based timeouts, for example SSH has
keepalive=YES  and probably a timeout option as well (man ssh)

3) I envision setting xlock (or any Screensaver) on a 3-day timeout, then
killing the parents of any xlock process via a clever script in the crontab.

my 2c ,(only worth 1.5 with the top-posting Exchange rate.  (pun intended.)

Regards,
-G



-----Original Message-----
From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com]
On Behalf Of Jonathan Chen (jonachen)
Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 2:33 PM
To: redhat-list at redhat.com
Subject: Automatic disconnect from host feature

Hi all,

I am wondering where is the setting that when you are inactive for X
amount of time, it automatically disconnects you if your logging in
remotely.   But if you log on from the same network, it lets you be stay
on until you log yourself out.


I would like to change the settings to whenever there is  KDE/Gnome
session has been idle for 3 days, it will automatically disconnect
without warning.

Any help will be much appreciated.


--Using RHEL 3

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