On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 06:17:23PM -0400, Brad Tilley wrote: > I thought about doing that too. I need to test it more to see what > happens when ksh is the shell and the user executes csh manually. I > suppose ksh will still honor TMOUT in that case.
TMOUT is at most a convenience, not a security measure:
$ TMOUT=600
$ readonly TMOUT
$ exec perl -e 'delete $ENV{TMOUT} ; exec "/bin/ksh";'
$ echo $TMOUT
0
$
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