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From: woan@nowhere (Ronald S Woan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: logging off idle users...
Summary: TMOUT in /etc/profile
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Date: 3 Apr 91 15:22:23 GMT
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In article <DiRRZ1w163w@scona> root@scona (Corey Wirun) writes:
>I seem to recall somewhere that under AIX3.1 on the RS/6000 that you 
>could set something up that users that were idle for more than a
>specified time could be logged off.
>
>Could someone point me in the right direction to do this?

Perhaps the ksh TMOUT environment variable being specified in
/etc/profile?
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