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Subject: Re: idletime in login.conf
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971122150417.29078B-100000@ampere.excelsus.com> from Weldon S Godfrey 3 at "Nov 22, 97 03:23:14 pm"
To: weldon@excelsus.com (Weldon S Godfrey 3)
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 1997 11:36:18 +0100 (CET)
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Hello Weldon,

Weldon S Godfrey 3 has written recently:
> I want to set a idletime logout a single account (or login class)
> 
> I placed in /etc/login.conf and ran cap_mkdb...I also tried placing a 
> .login_conf in the user directory.
> 
> The entry looked liked this
> 
> lgroup|Login group:idletime=20s:
> 
> and used "me" indtead of lgroup for .login_access
> 
> the user is set to login group "lgroup" in the master.passwd file and the
> password database is recompiled (used the vipw command)
> 
> and it never logout after idle time exceeded

The login.conf in 2.2.5-RELEASE has some parameters which have no
effect yet. One of them is "idletime". So no matter what value you
assign to it, it will no work.

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