Thanks for your response Markham,
I'm afraid labor law is much too protective here for us to be able to "educate" users in this way ;) Your idea to run a cron job every X minutes has merit though, I'll try and check into that ! On May 3, 2013, at 4:51 PM, markham breitbach <markham_breitb...@ssimicro.com> wrote: > Depending on the shell you are using, you may be able to set that to > auto-logout, or you > could set a cron job to run every 5 minutes and terminate tty's with > 5min > idle time. > > Honestly though, you will rarely find a good technical solution to a social > problem--there's always a work-around--and this is a social problem. If > there is a > company security policy stating that ssh sessions are not to be left idling > > 5 min, then > make sure everyone is aware of this policy and start handing out pink slips > to people that > violate it. > > -M > > > On 13-05-03 8:28 AM, Fleuriot Damien wrote: >> Hello list, >> >> >> >> I'm facing this unusual demand at work where we need to time out idle SSH >> connections for security purposes. >> >> I've checked the following options from sshd_config but none seems to fit my >> needs : >> TCPKeepAlive >> ClientAliveCountMax >> ClientAliveInterval >> >> >> Basically, I'm trying to defeat the use of the following client-side option: >> ServerAliveInterval 5 >> >> >> I'm afraid all I've hit now is dead ends. >> >> >> Has anyone ever had the same requirements before and, perhaps, found a >> solution to this ? >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
