logging out a ssh-user
Hi! I have to log out a user who is logged in via ssh. The information that he is not allowed to login comes from the utmp-file like the pid to kill. If he's logged in via telnet, I can do the job by killing that pid. That does not work with ssh: For some reason, all what I get out of utmp is the pid of the listening sshd which I can't kill if I don't want to disable ssh-logins. I solved it by adding 2 to that pid to reach the child-ssh, checking if it is "sshd" and owned by the user who is to be logged out. If that all is ok, I kill that pid. Well, it works, but is that reliable and secure? Will this also work after the maximum of PID is reached? The package I am talking about is timeoutd. (No bug for that) Dennis
Re: logging out a ssh-user
On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 09:47:29AM +0200, Norbert Tretkowski wrote: > * Dennis Stampfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have to log out a user who is logged in via ssh. > > , > | % apt-cache show slay Sure, but I can't fix a bug by saying "use slay instead of this package"... ;) Dennis
Need help: Idle X-user?
Hi -devel, the program timeoutd was originally written when using X was not a matter of course: timeoutd loggs user out when they reached timeout-restrictions like max. login-time, max. idle-time, etc. Some users asked for X-Support. Well, X works well with "No login allowed at all" and "Login restricted to max. X minutes", but it does not work with "Logout, when user U was idle Yminutes. Support for X and "idle-logout" is not included within timeoutd. My question is: Is there any way to querry how long a X-user is idle? If not, do you think it's okay to write something like "IDLE-Logout does not work with X" into Readme.Debian and into the config-file(,manpage, ...)? I found no way to check if a user is idle without using extra libraries, and if I use extra libaries, new depencies are needed wich users don't need if they have no X on their box. (these extra-depencies may depend on X, so they need X, etc...) thank you, Dennis
