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From: stefan@wheaton.UUCP (Stefan Brandle )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Logging out idle users
Message-ID: <1837@wheaton.UUCP>
Date: 13 Feb 90 04:27:18 GMT
References: <298@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM>
Reply-To: stefan@wheaton.UUCP (Stefan Brandle )
Organization: Wheaton College, IL
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In article <298@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM> gay@venice.sedd.trw.com (Lance Gay) writes:
>We have a problem with idle user not logging out when they leave their
>terminals and staying logged on all night.  Is their any free software
>(FTPable) out there which will logout any user which have not enetered
>any commands for a given time period?

Well, the new csh with Ultrix (unsupported shells software subset) does let you
specify timeout values for blowing people.  However, this is a very soft
approach and will not fix the determined non-logger-outer.

-stefan
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