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Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Want login shell to timeout after 1
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Date: 11 Jan 88 18:04:00 GMT
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>All these cute little scripts/programs to kill off idle users are cute
>but they are also futile.  It doesn't take much imagination to come up
>with a program to put a clock on the screen or just write any meaningless
>little message out to the screen every few minutes in order to beat it.

They are NOT futile.  People had a tendency to forget to log off our
Tektronix 4105 terminals.  Why, you ask?  Well, after a certain amount of
inactivity, the screens go blank.  That makes it easy for a user to
forget he/she was logged in.

	== kwthomas ==