I just tried idled, but cannot get it to work. It logs an error
which says "unable to read utmp file". I can look at the utmp file
just fine (although it has some non-ASCII characters in it.) By
checking the source code, I determined that it is failing after
executing the following command:
Casey,
The easiest way would be to set a users TMOUT variable to the number of
maximum seconds allowed. Doing a man bash should show you this informaion.
You might also check out the Unix Guru Web site, which has lots of good
programs and links to scripts like idleuser (I believe).
... Ste
You can set this some how. Do a man autologout
or man auto-logout
Casey Bralla wrote:
> I need a program which will automatically logout a user who has not
> had any activity for x minutes. I envision a sniffer-type program
> which records any data passing across tty's & ttyS's, then logs off
I need a program which will automatically logout a user who has not
had any activity for x minutes. I envision a sniffer-type program
which records any data passing across tty's & ttyS's, then logs off
the account on that device when it is inactive for a specific period
of time.
Does anybody kno
